Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.