“What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.”

“Im a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.”

“For his part, Jazz knew he was handsome. It had nothing to do with looking in the mirror, which he rarely did. It had everything to do with the way the girls at school looked at him, the way they b...”

“Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it.""Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really...”

“How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.”

“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”