“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”

“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

“In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.”

“Thirty minutes into the game, I was quite comfortable. Then they […] got two goals back-to-back which certainly turned the game in their favour.”

“Thirty-one.
Not old.
Not young.
But a viable die-able age.”

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”

“The driving force in the world economy is fast becoming a global confederation of productive vanguards. The vanguards established in different parts of the world drive one another forward. They trade with one another. They transfer personnel, technology, and organizational practices among themselves. Above all, they emulate one another.”

“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.”

“I was born a Hindu but will not die one.”

“There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”