"Making liberty tradable merchandise paves the way to ending independence. Everything becomes a commodity, even freedom."

"“Why isn’t the government already whole-hog totalitarian?” Frizz cocked his head slightly, peering at her, happy she …"

"People didn’t entirely believe the story, but they acted as if they did. It was like campaign promises—you chose your…"

"He flashed me a beautiful smile, which made me recall for a moment 1 of the advantages of fame—good-looking groupies."

"It looked strange enough to pass for fashion."

"But his feelings for me seemed more political than personal. I was a cause, a means by which he could make a name for…"

"Ersatz rights led to ersatz economics—prosthetic loans, junkmoney xFunds, WallaDough, CapitalStinge, Reaganomics."

"I had heard somewhere that dreams didn’t exist the way we remembered them, that we pieced them together from fragment…"

"Some of the brilliance of my argument escaped my words. Wind whistled through the logical gaps."

"Hollywood doesn’t want the customer to think, you know what I'm saying?"