Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.
Neal StephensonInteresting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.
Neal StephensonSee, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.
Neal StephensonOf course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.
Neal Stephenson