“All variables are independent.”

“Now single up all lines!”

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”

“Keep it bouncing," he'd told her once, "that's all the secret, keep it bouncing.”

“She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided...”

“Could we have been so much in the midst of life? With such a sense of grand adventure about it all?”

“It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.”