You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

Whom the gods notice they destroy.

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.

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

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.