Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest. Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.

If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

Half magic is no magic at all.

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.