In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.