“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

“By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

“You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

“Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?”

“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”