Breakfast of champions Quotes

“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”

“Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”

“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.”

“Sleep: the breakfast of champions”

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions”

“The breakfast of champions is not cereal it's the opposition.”

“This is a very bad book you’re writing,” I said to myself behind my leaks. “I know,” I said. “You’re afraid you’ll kill yourself the way your mother did,” I said. “I know,” I said. There in the cocktail lounge, peering out through my leaks at a world of my own invention, I mouthed this word: schizophrenia. The sound and appearance of the word had fascinated me for many years. It sounded and looked to me like a human being sneezing in a blizzard of soapflakes.”

“It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done”

“Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.”