Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.