“Sometimes I hate this place. I mean I really, truly, hate it. It offends my narrow-minded and provincial sensibilities regarding good universe design.”

“Fangs out? Check. Claws sharp? Check. Plan? Plan? What plan? Im making this up as I go.”

“Mind doesn't work properly when taken intoa higher level where fear dominates the will.”

“I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.”

“What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.”

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innume...”

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are fac...”

“In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.”