[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.