What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

I can write pretty much anywhere.

Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.