He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe sh… - Pat Cadigan

"Truth and information are not the same thing. I promise you that's a fact."
"So you told yourself. But you have to admit that they do coincide often enough to let us all get around in the world safely."

The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old—hell, not even growing up.

Fez gave her a squeeze. “You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.” She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. “It just makes sense, is all.”
“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”