You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.