To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.