“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it.”

“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.”

“Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.”

“If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child. ”

“You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three.”