You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.