The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?

Gold is the corpse of value.

At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here.