“One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.”

“I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.”

“New worlds are always hard on old ideas.”

“A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas.”

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

“This world has been corrupt from the beginning. It was humans who corrupted the noble order with manipulative ideas. They always tend to seek justification for themselves. The fact is that no one can escape from personal motives and subjectivity.”

“My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me.”

“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.”