“Two tires fly. Two Wail.A bamboo grove, all chopped downFrom it, warring songs.”

“And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.”

“Really, he has only two emotions: sleeping and adrenaline overdrive.”

“This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.”

“You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?”

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

“The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along.”