“There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.”

“I must have dreamed a thousand dreams about you these past two weeks.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.”

“Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.”

“The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.”

“I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.... I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape -- but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community -- to society?”