“Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.”

“I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.”

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

“She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.”

“Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android.”

“I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.”

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”