“If someone really interests you, you'll learn about them yourself.”

“Are you a consumer or producer?”

“The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.”

“The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.”

“When you criticize someone with followers, the followers recognize that, if you are correct, they have been sucked in. If they had been sucked in, then they must not be too bright, or at least they were not well enough informed to form a critical judgment which would have led them to identify their leader as someone not worth following. So, a criticism of the leader produces a particular response in the followers. They feel that there has been an attack on them personally. The critic is saying, loud and clear, that anyone who has followed this particular leader is not a good judge of character, intellect, or facts. They are quite correct. This is exactly what the critic is saying.”

“Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.”

“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.”