“This world has turned into a place where you can get stabbed in the back for trying climbing a ladder.”
“... in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.”
“You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator.”
“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.”
“Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?”
“If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world”