“Do you drink ale, stranger?” the aged centaur asked Brazil. — Jack L. Chalker

"You can’t be a nonconformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform."

"Even the people were bred without imaginations. The imaginative ones were fixed—or gotten rid of. Too dangerous to have a thinker unless he thought the government’s way."

"To tell the truth, the only thing more exhausting than doing something is doing nothing at all."

"He was firmly convinced of his uniqueness in the universe and his general superiority to it, although he was occasionally bothered by the universe’s lack of appreciation."

"“Throughout the history of men there’s always been some kind of drug, and the people stuck on it. The people who push the stuff are on a different kind of drug, one so powerful that they are not aware of its own, ravaging, animalistic effect on them.” “What’s that?” “Power and greed,” he told her. “The ugliest—no, the second ugliest ravager of people ever known.” “What’s the ugliest then?” she asked him. “Fear,” he replied seriously. “It destroys, rots, and touches everyone around.”"

"He had often wondered if there was something deep in the human psyche that insisted on tribalism. People used to fight wars not so much to protect their own life-style but to impose it on others."