People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

You are better than you think.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.