“That din of applause was currently manifest in a mediated form online. “Inside those cubes of the virtual,” thought Albrecht, “is a vaulting collection of hungry ids. All they require is discipline.”

“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

“The best atrocity engineering is conducted, thought Albrecht, never so much by the participant, but by the enabler.”

“To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.”

“Not a word, not a word of love, Prehaps, she thought, he does not love in the ordinary way. God loves us, after all, He manifests it in cancer, cholera, Siamese twins. Not all forms of love are comprehensible, and some forms of love destroy what they touch.”

“Of all the thoughts we think, it's only those that actually manifest themselves that seem significant. But the thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought." - Nathan Harold”