...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.

When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.