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

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

In a one-party system there is always a landslide.

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.