“I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.”

“Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around.”

“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”

“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”

“Well, that was one thing you had to give [Makann] credit for. He wanted to run out the Gilgameshers. Everybody was in favor of that.Now, Trask could remember something he'd gotten from Harkaman. There had been Hitler, back at the end of the First Century Pre-Atomic; hadn't he gotten into power because everybody was in favor of running out the Christians, or the Moslems, or the Albigensians, or somebody?”

“It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.”

“I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.”