“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.”

“Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it's right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of its existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering - unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.”

“I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.”

“Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.”

“Cured yesterday of my disease,I died last night of my physician.”

“If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.”