“Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.”

“On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore y”

“The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owners manual.”

“But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.”

“We cant worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist...”

“Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”