This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

Perfection is death, ' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.

The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

The civil involvement of the church is a spiritual tactic aim at defeating the forces of darkness.

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.