“Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?”

“Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.”

“There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”

“Danglers alone was content and joyous, he had got rid of an enemy and preserved his situation on board the Pharaon; Danglers was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and that life would diminish, the total of the amount.”

“So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.”

“I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover." He leered. "Instead, you're making plans for tomorrow. Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself.”