«They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.»

«When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.»

«Too many freeways, too much sun, too much abnormality taken normally, too many pink stucco houses and pink stucco consciences.»

«To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.»

«You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.»

«Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.»

«Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.»