"Breakfast of Champions"
- New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
- Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
- Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
- It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
- A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
- Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
- How nice… to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
- I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
- Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
- If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
- I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
