If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.