“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. ”

“Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does.""No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money.”

“How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”

“But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.”

“The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.”

“You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”

“quantum reality, and finding itself emerging in a continuum it had no prior conception of: an energistic vacuum”