No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.

Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.