"If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture."
"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"
"Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people."
"The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?"
"Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you’d been reading."
"If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived."
"The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday."
"Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy."
"By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember."
"Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are"