“Earth was green and watery. The air of the Earth was good to breathe, as fattening as cream. The purity of the rains that fell on Earth could be tasted. The taste of purity was daintily tart. Earth was warm. The surface of the Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.”

“The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.”

“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”

“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons.”

“There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.”

“We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.”

“We're here on Earth to fart around”