Who said “Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen?…”?

“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.”

“His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!”

“a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat”

“Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”

“That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.”

“A functioning police state needs no police.”

“The face of evil is always the face of total need.”

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”

“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”

“So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”