“If it weren't for the people, the god-damn people' said Finnerty, 'always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, the world would be an engineer's paradise.”
“I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's?”
“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.”
“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them”
“Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”
“Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.”