“ Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie — and the A-movie for that matter — that any female who enters your life in a dramatic manner must be your fated love. Spider Robinson
“ A surprising percentage of your own society, with all your heritage of murder, would like to believe that Life survives by going to the supermarket. So the ideal would be to train cattle to make butch… Spider Robinson
“ The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this… Spider Robinson
“ Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the las… Spider Robinson
“ Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friend… Spider Robinson
“ Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain. Spider Robinson
“ What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise. Spider Robinson
“ It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan loses a lot of his regulars. After they've been coming around long enough… Spider Robinson
“ Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed, Annie said softly.He froze.I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing...but I'm impressed by how well y… Spider Robinson
“ The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten. Spider Robinson
“ Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place. Spider Robinson
“ In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a… Spider Robinson
“ I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-idiotic called science fiction. I think sf is a literature which by its very nature requires that yo… Spider Robinson
“ Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few peop… Spider Robinson
