The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.