Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
She smiled innocuously—at variance with her words. At this point he could not discern her degree of seriousness. A topic of world-shaking importance, yet dealt with facetiously; an android trait, poss...
I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.
He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies.
Blood, Herr Reiss, can never be eradicated like ink.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
Watching him, Juliana thought, It's idealism that makes him that bitter. Asking too much out of life. Always moving on, restless and griped.
There ought to be an ordinance that a man can't work for the same outfit as his wife; hell, even in the same city.
Thank you, Mr. Bibleman, the robot said. 'I am very proud of you.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic.
Maybe there's a machine in Berkeley that will save me, too. Perhaps my problems can be automated out of existence.
If you or I ever really accepted the moral responsibility for what we've done in our lifetime—we'd drop dead or go mad. Living creatures weren't made to understand what they do.
I'm sorry, Leon said. I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're flying around somewhere in the sky, zipping here and there and being spirits and happy. But you and I an...
I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped...
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Everything is true, he said. Everything anybody has ever thought.
Dio promette la vita eterna disse Eldritch. Io posso fare di meglio; posso metterla in commercio.
Christ on the crapper,