What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

- Max Barry

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

- Max Barry

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

- Max Barry

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as …

- Max Barry

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and h…

- Max Barry

By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if …

- Max Barry

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering …

- Max Barry

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

- Max Barry

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

- Max Barry