"When I float weightless back to the surface, Im imagining Im becoming someone else. ... Its probably the decompression."
"What we really need, Togusa, is not sharpshooting skills, so much as the ability to get close enough to make sure the enemy can be killed. If you want to play at long-range sniping, you can always go shoot an elephant at 500 miles with a miniature cruise missile..."
"If we all reacted the same way, wed be predictable, and theres always more than one way to view a situation. Whats true for the group is also true for the individual. Its simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. Its slow death."
"Well, I guess cyborgs like myself have a tendency to be paranoid about our origins."
"Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost."
"So what happens if she turns over in her sleep? Wont her ghost separate from her body?"
"There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience. I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries."