Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Sex pretty much cures everything.