“... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.”

“All I know is, unselfishness is the only moral principle," said Jessica Pratt, "the noblest principle and a sacred duty and much more important than freedom. Unselfishness is the only way to happiness. I would have everybody who refused to be unselfish shot. To put them out of their misery. They can't be happy anyway.”

“Among the beliefs I held about the world was that being beautiful should not matter to a woman, because it was one of those things that would go away-- your beauty would go away,and there wouldn't be anything you could do to bring it back.”

“Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor we would know much of the economics that really matters.”

“Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”

“The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.”