“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”

“It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.”

“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.”

“...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.”

“But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.”

“Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.”