"Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!"

“I believe in the future of television! I wish to be ready to go up right along with it. Therefore I'm planning to get in on the ground floor. In fact I've already made the right connections and all that remains is for the industry itself to get under way! Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzp! — Power!”

“I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less — freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns…”

“Things have a way of turning out so badly.”

“The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”

“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”

“We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about.”