25th Century Motor Company

“He was a man who had never accepted the creed that others had the right to stop him. He set his goal and moved toward it, his way as straight as one of his rails.”

“Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrifical animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best...All that lunacy is temporary. It can't last. It's demented, so it has to defeat itself.”

“He was the only man she knew to whom she could speak without strain or effort. This, she thought, was a mind she respected.”

“He acted like a man who stood straight, under the weight of an unendurable burden...it was of himself that he demanded perfection.”

“I keep thinking that parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate...I never expect to encounter intelligence. That I should find it here is such an astonishing relief!”

“You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes it a virtue out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.”