“He was reluctantly forced to conclude that his sanity was unshaken.”

“Now, he was filled with a distaste for a civilization in which the individual was so prone and in which he must be so diligent just to preserve his sanity.”

“I am forced to conclude that being right has little to do with holding a woman’s affections.”

“I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.”

“We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected — like it or not”

“Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.”

“But sanity, Vasko decided, was like the pattern of lights he could see through his cabin window. In almost any direction the only way to travel was into darkness, and there was a lot more darkness than light.”

“Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.”

“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention… the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

“The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.”