Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation. - Elias Canetti

...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine the finest characters. They teach us to think ourselves into other men's places. Thus we acquire a taste for change. The personality becomes dissolved in pleasing figments of imagination. The reader learns to understand every point of view. Willingly he yields himself to the pursuit of other people's goals and loses sight of his own. Novels are so many wedges which the novelist, an actor with his pen, inserts into the closed personality of the reader. The better he calculates the size of the wedge and the strength of the resistance, so much the more completely does he crack open the personality of the victim. Novels should be prohibited by the State.

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.

Yapıyorlar, ama ne yaptıklarının bilincinde değiller, birtakım alışkanlıklar edinmişler, ama bunun nedenini bilmiyorlar; ömürleri boyunca dolaşıp durdukları halde yollarını bulamıyorlar: kitleden ayrılamayan, koyun gibi onun peşinden gidenler için doğaldır bunların tümü. Sy123