“Beauty didn't seem to be a priority for people anymore. If you had to judge by I-95, America had become a cancerous clusters of cheap houses, replicating out of control...People just needed places to collect their stuff.”

“Ah. Alicia, see? Didn't I tell you that's what she needed to begin with? Maybe a little schtupping and it would make the cancer go away. It works with pimples.''Nana!”

“People keep talking about this unfolding. I can't trust the unfolding, okay? If there is some higher power making origami out of the universe, it hates my guts. I was a fat kid whose parents got divorced, whose father died, and then who got cancer herself. So no. I don't trust how things are going to unfold.”

“Old people always exaggerate the danger and lawlessness of their youth, thought Cam, because their adult lives have become so boring.”

“Love'--romantic love, anyway--was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.”

“Some people say you should pay attention to coincidence. It can show you your path. Besides, these coincidences are enough to keep people believing. To give them some hope.”

“Kind of like people. We're too lazy to change, so we'll just keep doing what we're doing until it's too late.”