“Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far”

“I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force”

“Freedom in cyberspace’d be fine and dandy if we happened to live there.”

“...to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size”

“Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space”

“Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.”

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull”