“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything”

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

“I don't want anything now, Sarie thought, not a thing in the world. I have everything I want. Yesterday I wanted so much without knowing what. Today I've got everything...”

“No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.”

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”

“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.”