“Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men...”

“But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.”

“He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.”

“Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were not guilty of any wrongful acts; rather, they were accused only of thought-crimes.”

“On a date, you shared your deep thoughts with each other, but not that deep. We were eating sandwiches, for God's sake.”

“When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.”