I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.

Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.