“You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physica...”

“In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?”

“I meant, tell me all about this steampunk thing! Gavin broke in. How does that concept work out for you people, here in Brazil?You dont know about steampunk? shouted Xavier, dubiously.Well, I dont ...”

“Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because it plays all my CDs. But nobody buys music in the stores any more! Eve...”

“She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didnt understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The ...”

“If you dont have a sense of wonder its like youre dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing thats basically a conjurers trick, or a...”

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”

“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”

“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”

“Mortal has not been a habitable place for a long time. We have been trying to survive patching it but one day it will break completely. Twinmortal is the future for all of us. You will achieve that...”

“That's how we should celebrate all birthdays... with an ass-kicking.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”