The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.

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

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

"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.