"Are our souls so much perverted? Can we not relent? Or are the stars the madman’s cost For his inborn discontent?"

"Only gods and television audiences see the pattern of human events."

"Charging back and forth isn’t progress. Small but steady forward motion is."

"The idea was to hang on to reality. It was the one crutch everybody used."

"I do what seems best—I live, I let live; so far I’ve done well. I don’t see why I should act like a predator, simply …"

"He wondered, as he often had during his life, at people’s ability to think so intricately and to still be wrong."

"“Can I drive you down to your house?” The man flicked an expressive glance along the car’s length and shook his head.…"

"Williamson threw his hands carefully up to heaven and snorted again. Apparently, everything Fay said served to confir…"

"“You look like any other brainless jackanapes,” he mused, “but apparently there’s some gray matter left in your artfu…"

"We are born of Humankind— This our destiny: To bitter dwell in discontent Wherever we may be."