"It had been different during his first year of graduate school, when he temporarily forsook physics to explore instead the realm of the senses. Applying logic to the late-blooming quandries of maturity, he had parsed the elements of encounter, banter, negotiation, and consummation, separating and solving the variables one by one until the problem—if not generally solved—did appear to have tractable special solutions."

"Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality…"

"The quality of agreeableness Is not much stressed nowadays. People tend to ask if a man is clever, industri…"

"There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight."

"I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being…"

"That very large system, with interconnected industries responding to each other through delays, entraining …"

"The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years o…"