“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...”

“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.”

“I bitterly recalled that I had no arms.”

“It’s hard to hate someone once you understand them. It felt so mixed up.”

“You did express a disinterest in involving *nice* people in our current difficulties,” Pal reminded me. True enough, I thought back. Hallelujah, it’s raining jerks.”

“It was so big, that view. I’ll never remember it properly. How can anyone remember something that big? I don’t think people’s brains are designed for memories like that. They’re designed for things like phone numbers, or the color of someone’s hair. Not hugeness.”

“Aren't we all monsters inside?”