Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.