I owe a fortune in student loans, and after I got my degree in education and tried to apply it, I caught on that the emperor had no clothes— - Tim Powers

Where's the sane world?" Castine asked as she followed him around to the front of the Saturn. "I used to live there. I think I still have pictures.

Say that again after you’ve been in the same spot and acted differently, old buddy. Maybe then I’ll be ashamed.

You ever notice, Joe," he asked, mechanically picking up the mug, "that it always takes a little more trouble to get something than the thing was really worth?"
Joe considered it. "Better than taking a lot of trouble and getting nothing."
Dundee sipped the coffee. He didn't seem to have heard Joe. "There's so much weariness and fatigue in it all. For every action there is an equal...stupefaction. No, that might be bearable—it's greater than the action.