We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.

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.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.