Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.