Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

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

You are better than you think.

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.