I LOVED this book - it was a book I got from Amazon Prime and it was really entertaining. I could not put it down. What made it even more interesting is that the novel is based around technology which is becoming an increasingly large center-point of our everyday lives.
Page 128: "You ever notice how the people who most need to see or read something are the most oblivious or resentful of its existence?"
Page 206: "Guilt, he thought, must be the most useless human emotion. Fear alerted one to danger and therefore saved lives. Love altered one to living and therefore improved lives. But guilt - guilt was so uselessly after-the-fact, so absent as a tool of prevention and yet so powerful as a tool of misery. Guilt rotted men in cells and suburbs and churches. Guilt destroyed lives."
Page 261: "My understanding of what ti means to be average has nothing to do with statistics. The average American is truly average only in the ways he falls short of his own potential, particularly when he is motivated by the expectations of others. There is always someone more to the right or left of you, someone more or less attractive than you, someone richer or poorer, someone who claims to know how you should live your life better than you know it. People are average when they are driven by a motivation to fit in. The American challenge, then, is to be oneself- only, exactly, and totally."
Page 262: "Our failure is that we actively resist people who fall outside the status quo and especially those who reach beyond it on purpose. An average American is one who cannot overcome his instinct to view the honest aspirations of others with suspicion."
Page 354: "Manipulating emotions is the most important function of meaningful art. We cannot grown unless we invest our emotions in an idea. Without emotion, nothing takes hold."
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