“A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.”

“The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.”

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

“I add things, cross them off, then add a whole other bunch and cross them off, too.”

“Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. ”

“Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?”