"You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love it too. I bet he wanted people who argued. You can tell he did, you can tell that's what he loved really, at least in The Symposium."

"You are making Socrates's mistake of assuming the gods are good."

"I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail."

"Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does."