“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 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.”

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

“Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.”

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

“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.”

“I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out.”