“You share 99.9% of my DNA! How scary is that?”

“Photons do what frazzled parents can’t; they can be in two places at once. Better yet, they can be in all places at once.”

“Shame comes in two flavors: episodic shame and existential shame. Episodic shame can be habit-forming; it can turn into existential shame.”

“The future is hurtling toward us at the speed of a runaway train…Now is the hour of our death…Memento Mori does not go nearly far enough. Try Vivo Mori instead.”

“…the city had 260,000 residential units, 80,000 shops, 13,000 looms, 5,000 mills, and 4,000 open air markets… the central library contained over 400,000 volumes (allegedly more than the library at Alexandria before the conflagration.)”

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“First, pay the cancellation fee and cash in your first-class ticket to Lhasa.”

“Madison Avenue knows us. It knows that our deepest longing is to be ourselves, to be what we are, to lose our absolute freedom in the security of an identity....'Never happening!”

“We’re not in Kansas (or even Kensington) anymore, are we?”

“Satisfaction…is potentially limitless.”

“Whatever we do, each of us is commenting on the current state-of-affairs, advocating for some future state-of-affairs, or rejecting the political process altogether.”

“To determine if a particular government is operating for the people, we need a checklist. What are the identifying marks of such a government?”