« - Given the flame in your eyes, the Earth must be an extraordinary world. Are women beautiful there? - Some... But there are also some beautiful ones here on Tschai. »

« Turjan found a mouldy volume, turning the heavy pages in search of the charm shown to him by the Wise, the Call to the Violent Cloud. He considered the characters, who began to blaze with a strange power, gushing from the leaflet as if they were trying to escape the dark solitude of the book. (Miir Turjan) »

« The upper ahulphes have four smells meaning conviviality, hostility, and two varieties of excitement unknown to the human race. The countless races of lower ahulphes emit only hostility and an attractive fragrance. Sometimes the mentality of the ahulphe bears similarities to human intelligence, but this similarity is misleading and attempts to get along with the ahulphs on a human reasoning basis only lead to disappointments. For example, the ahulphe does not understand that one can work for money, despite all the care that can be put to explain the thing to him. »