humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.