“Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!”

“Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.”

“And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.”

“Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.”

“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.”

“Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.”

“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”