Mindplayers

Quotes

1. If fasting really had anything to do with enlightenment then millions of people throughout the ages had died of the secret of life. And the secret of life was, in its entirety, that starvation hurt like a bastard.

   p. 78

2. 

   Meditation was such a loose term; you can do almost anything mentally and call it meditation.

   p. 35

3. 

   Truth and information are not the same thing!

   p. 180

4. 

   I remembered the sign in front of the cathedral:

   p. 89

5. 

   I said, What are you, a federal employee or just a freelance zombie?

   p. 105

6. 

   “Is that the way you feel about it?” I asked.

   “I’m a lawyer. I deal with the law as it is, not how I feel about it.”

   p. 42

7. 

   Old responses live long, die hard, and frequently leave a troublesome corpse.

   p. 245

8. 

   Everybody wants to be somebody but nobody wants to be just anybody.

   p. 13

9. 

   Help him by helping him resist your help.

   p. 249

10. 

    It gets tricky here, but it’s always seemed to be that sanity is, or can be, as relative as anything else. Sacrifice an animal to Zeus and predict the future from the formation of its entrails—do that as a general in ancient Greece hoping for victory in a coming battle and you’re prudent. Do it today and you’re a clinical paranoid and a mean one, too. Sanity, like customs and manners, seems to have a strong basis in the accepted standards of a particular time and place.

    p. 278

11. 

    If a dataline is running and there’s no one there to watch it, has anything really happened?

    p. 85

12. 

    “Truth and information are not the same thing. I promise you that’s a fact.”

    “So you told yourself. But you have to admit that they do coincide often enough to let us all get around in the world safely.”

    p. 183

13. 

    Fusion power we licked; static cling has us on the ropes. It’s a funny world.

    p. 231

14. 

    Maybe it’s better to be half of something wonderful than a whole nothing at all.

    p. 239

15. 

    Some people gain freedom by trading one form of bondage for another.

    p. 238

16. 

    And that vulgar gold lamé upholstery giving me a rash. You can dispute taste but you can’t stop it.

    p. 154

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