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

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

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.

The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.