“Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by people who sought excuses for believing.”

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”

“...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.”

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”