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Zodiac QUOTES

Zodiac QUOTES

1 " Debbie insisted on following the rhythm of the waves. Typical duck-squeezer sex: slow, frustrating, in-tune with nature. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

2 " I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

3 " If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

4 " I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I follow when I assume that everyone in a car is out to get me. My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe--to see you, and to give a fuck--you've already blown it... We had a nice ride through the darkness. On those bikes we were weak and vulnerable, but invisible, elusive, aware of everything within a two-block radius. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

5 " Plastic is essentially frozen gasoline. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

6 " Find it on the map, you can always get to it. Try to follow someone’s half-assed directions, and once you lose the trail, you’re sunk. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

7 " The big lie of American capitalism is that corporations work in their own best interests. In fact they’re constantly doing things that will eventually bring them to their knees. Most of these blunders involve toxic chemicals that any competent chemist should know to be dangerous. They pump these things into the environment and don’t even try to protect themselves. The evidence is right there in public, almost as if they’d printed up signed confessions and sprinkled them out of aeroplanes. Sooner or later, someone shows up in a Zodiac and points to that evidence, and the result is devastation far worse than what a terrorist, a Boone, could manage with bombs and guns. All the old men within twenty miles who have come down with tumors become implacable enemies. All the women married to them, all the mothers of damaged children, and even those of undamaged ones. The politicians and the news media trample each other in their haste to pour hellfire down on that corporation. The transformation can happen overnight and it’s easy to bring about. You just have to show up and point your finger. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

8 " It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I’m forced to do exactly what’s expected. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

9 " I wanted to shout: one Far Side on the door does not an interesting person make. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

10 " Down by the river,
Down by the banks of the River Charles
That’s where you’ll find me
Along with lovers, muggers and thieves
Well I love that dirty water,
Oh Boston, you’re my home. —The Inmates "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

11 " Maybe we should start an institute on nonviolent terrorism.” “Catchy. But if it’s not violent, there’s no terror involved. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

12 " candelabras "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac

13 " It might interest you to know that our state is tired of being used as a chemical toilet so that people in Utah can have plastic lawn furniture. "

― Neal Stephenson , Zodiac