I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

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.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.