13 quotes found
“It really is better to be lucky than to be good.”
“I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?”
“I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”
“There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.”
“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”
“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches”
“The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.”
“Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.”
“When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.”
“Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?”
“Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.”
“It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.”
“I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be pe...”
