“Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.”

“But Onar turned out to be a poor lover, certainly the worst of Yoke’sfew partners thus far. Onar stinted on the foreplay, made a long messyfuss of his prophylactic preparations, and was up for at most sixtyseconds of actual coitus. As a final turn-off, Onar said something Britishwhen he came, something like “Cor blimey,” or “Top drawer,” or “Bit ofall right”— Yoke’s outraged brain disdained to retain the phrase.”

“The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.”

“No one can point to the fourth dimension, yet it is all around us.”

“In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you can’t get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three and class-four zones."--Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love”

“The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.”

“America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.”