“Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something.”
“We are all dyingof something, always,but our degrees ofawareness differ- from "Tubes”
“Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
“It's creepy to know that we're living in a giant tube.""Hey, if you think about it, we were living on the surface of a big ball of rock. How was that better?”
“We die of habits,deplorable oneslike merely living:finally fatal.- from "Tubes”
“The Internet is a Series of Tubes!”