“Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation?”

“I wear a solar radiation suit. The lights we have over our artificial fields simulate real sunlight, so if I were in there for too long, I’d get a sunburn just like if I was on a beach. I guess up on the Burn (that’s what we call the land) they had something called sunscreen, but then some dermatologist down here designed the solar radiation suits and said they were much more effective protection. Sometimes I want to smack him.”

“Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!”

“It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.”

“The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.”

“Mojo” is, “That positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside”