Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen.

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.