“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”

“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”

“English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”

“I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.”

“It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.”

“Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.”

“I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?”