...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.