Who said “About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of…”?

“Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.”

“You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.”

“We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.”

“The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.”

“This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!”

“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”

“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”

“We are what we imagine ourselves to be.”