“Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.”

“Look! You look, Mr Stone Eagle!' I shout down the telephone. 'This one's big time. This one's different. Do you know where the people behind your superquarry came from — names like McAskill and Kelly? They came from places like the Hebrides and Ireland in the Celtic world. Over here. They got pulled like weeds from their own land and transplanted onto yours. Don't you see? We're both from superquarry-threatened communities. We're both from communities that got fucked over, yes, fucked over. They cleared the native people and now they're wanting even the rocks.”

“I've told you before, Salmeo, you may be more woman than man but you cannot think like one of us.”

“If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.”

“Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're actually paying for.”

“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”

“I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat.”