...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in ev… - Martin Amis

My theory is - we don't really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and quickly as if anybody's there.

Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end.

When you considered this world — people winched up and lowered down into the earth in steel cages and speed-fed through the tunnels, with doors cracking everywhere, and arctic winds mingling with dusty gaps of fire from the planet's core — it was hard to believe how delicate life was, how breakable things were.