And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?

There's a right thing to do," Holden said. "You don't have a right thing, friend," Miller said. "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.

And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?

No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.