“Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet.”

“You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants.”

“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death).”

“CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.”

“...of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared.”

“Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.”