“All the obstacles existed solely in code, I thought.”

“All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.”

“But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of Digital Fortress. She was still struggling to comprehend its existence. She'd spent her life breaking codes, firmly denying the existence of the ultimate code. Every code is breakable - the Bergofsky Principle! She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God.”

“The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.”

“Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.”

“The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.”