“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”

“What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?”

“The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.”

“On a sub, you know, there's no place for things to drain to. The survivors claimed that the blood was knee-deep all through the submarine.”

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

“That is the kind of beauty I was trying to get you to see,” Orolo told me. “Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

“...class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.”