“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”

“Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. *Harmless untruths”

“Live by the foma(Harmless untruths) that make you braveand kind and healthy and happy.”

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”

“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”

“We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.”

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”