Fish cannot carry guns.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

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.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.