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.

I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.

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

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

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

What constitutes the authentic human being?

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.