if there is a god, he sure hates people

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.