“Theres less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, Bailey said. Theyll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the sharks.”

“This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.”

“Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.”

“Director of Ensuring the Future”

“Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.”

“Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.”

“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes...”

“On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all...”

“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak th...”

“Because of fear, people who have civil rights cant use them”

“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!”

“The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and hi...”

“To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!”