He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Sad company is bad company.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.