The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.