You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.