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.

The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.