Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.