Quotes from Bernard Wolfe

Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?

They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.

The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

It then became intolerable that while I was not in any way interested in the world's affairs the world should have decided to interfere so spectacularly in mine. […] I am tired of offering my services as a smokescreen when there is a good chance of my being dismembered in the process and when I don't approve of what's being screened anyhow.