“We're an ecological disaster.""Exactly," said the expendable.”

“No, Simi. No food. (Astrid)‘No, Simi. No food.’ You sound like akri. ‘Don’t eat that, Simi, you’ll cause an ecological disaster.’ What is an ecological disaster, that’s what I want to know? Akri says it’s me on hunger binge, but I don’t think that’s quite right, but that’s all he’ll say about it. (Simi)”

“So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission?" asked the expendable."The mission didn't fail," said Ram. "It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.”

“She said, "As long as we're with each other--""We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished.”

“We're two lonely people having supper.""Exactly." said Bunny. "That's a date.”

“This had disaster written all over it. Jack wasn't exactly the picture of discretion-or sanity,for that matter.”