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“The schizophrenic condition finds its most glorious expression in Hinduism,” remarked Professor Hira. “Whereas Christianity is an expression of the much less interesting paranoid frame of reference. Paranoia is rarely heroic, in the mythical sense, at least.”

Some try to understand the world, while others seek to impose their understanding on it. Unfortunately, Mr. Smiles, these latter folk are those least equipped to perform the operation. Like Frankenstein, my dear Mr. Smiles, they produce a monster.

Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill?

“There’s more to life than drugs and sex, Mr. Cornelius.”

“There’s more than life to drugs and sex. It’s better than nothing.”

How many generations need to comply in a fallacy before it becomes accepted as truth?

“Better the myth of happiness,” Harlequin murmured, “than the myth of despair.”

“You look ahead.”

“I look around. Ahead’s here already.”

Technology is potential freedom from brutality.

“It’s like prostitution.”

“It’s a lot like prostitution, isn’t it?”

“You see nothing wrong…?”

“The customer’s always right.”

“And you have no,” she shuddered, “ethics?”

“I give the public what it wants, if that’s what you mean.”

The poor man has sacrificed himself for others, but he could not help resenting them from time to time.

“Perhaps I should not say so, but it occasionally crosses my mind to wonder why, in all the mystic cosmologies, even in some of the modern so-called parasciences, our own age is always described as the age of chaos and contention. A comment, my logical side argues, on why people turn to mysticism. The past age was always better.”

“Childhood is the happiest time of life except when you’re a child,” said Jerry.

“I understand you. True.”

Every court must have its fool, every great ideal must attract some who are motivated only by self-interest.