Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?