If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

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.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.