“Create a noteworthy novelty! Call it into being.”

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”

“He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.”

“Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?”

“It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day wonder, the super-hero has become a part of American life. It's here to stay.For better, or for worse.”

“It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.”