I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake.