"Well, let’s call his age as pushing sixty and not mention from which direction he was pushing it."

"It’s indecent and inhuman to put full length mirrors in bathroom doors. They cause narcissism in the young and unhapp…"

"It said, “Ask, what is man?” Mechanically, he asked it. “Man is a blind alley in evolution, who came too late to comp…"

"In twenty to thirty thousand years memories become legends and legends become superstitions and even the superstition…"

"He could see now what a lot of his mistakes had been—laziness among them. And laziness is curable."

"The ever-present possibility of making a big mistake worried him. He’d have worried about it more if he’d known that …"

"Paranoia is a form of insanity which, Dr. Randoph told me, hasn’t any physical symptoms. It’s just a delusion support…"

"Most intelligent people of the eighties had developed a type of radio deafness which enabled them not to hear a human…"

"He knew that soon, perhaps even today, something important was going to happen. Whether good or bad he did not know, …"

"Living creatures, sea gulls, soaring lazily and gracefully overhead. Living creatures, a group of girls, walking by, …"