“The unfed mind devours itself.”

“The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”

“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.”

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”

“In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death”

“The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.”

“Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.”