“The thing was not discussable, even with a near acquaintance like Calvin because … because of the nature of the thing … because one had to behave like a normal, unworried human being. That at least was sound and clear and gave him comfort: behave like a normal human being.”

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“The ignorant often sin of education, arrogance and presumption. For his it is normal behave like this because he is not used to acquiring culture, according to him he is born wise and generally due to his closed nature he dies always together with his ignorance.”

“Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.”

“Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.”

“There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.”

“Being normal is being completely unique, because nobody's the same.”

“Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”

“They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.”

“It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.”