“Our story has been told,our song has been sung.You're a road I’ve already traveled,and from it, I have moved on."Already Traveled”

“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”

“Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it”

“It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.”

“Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.”

“The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth travelling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!”