“The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.”

“Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.”

“You can't make a date in death's dateless night.”

“A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.”

“Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. ”

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”

“One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.”

“Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.”

“He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.”

“The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.”

“I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that”