On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

Fish cannot carry guns.

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?" We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.