“A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.”
“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
“Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.”
“A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.”
“Outside, the natural world was enjoying a moment of total strength.”
“In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.”