“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“No one realises that some individuals consume herculesque forces only to be normal.”

“There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal.”

“To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.On both perhaps.”

“At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.”

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”

“Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.”