I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.