“If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!”

“I don't want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, 'I spend forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life.”

“In no sense are the robot dogs, automated vacuum cleaners and old-folks lifting machines just examples of yet another consumer society with nothing meaningful left to spend its disposable income on. No, robots are the future. They have been for generations.”

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions, when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”

“Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.”

“God created a free universe. He could have created any kind of universe he wanted. But a universe without freedom would have been static and meaningless -- the taxpayer-funded-art-in-public-places universe.”