I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.