Chris Weitz > Quotes

“There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobody hurts. That place is only in our imagination. But if we get our heads around it, we can go a little way toward making this real place more like that imaginary place. They call that place Utopia.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.”
― Chris Weitz

“It's our damage that makes us interesting.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are the things we don't know we don't know.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“The only constant is change.”
― Chris Weitz, The Young World

“There’s only a couple hundred of us here in the Square. Pretty much everybody has a sweet pad, except Brainbox, who lives in the library. I mean literally lives in the Bobst Library. I”
― Chris Weitz, The Young World

“So in a way, capitalism was a method for people to keep connected. That kind of glued people together, gave them a better way of getting one another to do things than just using flat-out force.”
― Chris Weitz, The Young World

“Language trips you up. You can't ever say exactly what you mean, and every time you try try, you actually end up saying something about yourself.”
― Chris Weitz, The Young World

“I wanted to believe that everyone would throw down their arms and embrace one another, drop the trappings of war and coercion and return to the way they’d been. But my heart tells me that it wouldn’t be as pretty as that. It tells me that the new social contract would be written in blood. Once the light of survival started peeking through the door, people would trample one another to death in the race for the exit. It”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“Like, my heart—not the blood-pumping one but the metaphorical, lovey-dovey, pitter-pattering, breakable one—is an accessory that draws too much power, so the moment I start feeling, a fuse clicks over and the whole thing just goes dead. To”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order

“Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.”
― Chris Weitz, The New Order