...Skyscraper National Park

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

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.