211 quotes found
“Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his ...”
“I am life, the girl said.What? he said, startled.To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. Im life and when youre done w...”
“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
“The thing about rabbits, sir, is that everybody has one. I'd like to see you step up to the goat-class where I feel you belong. Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.”
“I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought.”
“Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slip...”
“You're an unusual person," she said."Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's soso prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should becomebroadened in his o...”
“What was on the other side?"Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it.""He... never went through it?""Thats why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apa...”
“Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and re...”
“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and v...”
“Mankind needs more empathy.”
“An android, he said, doesnt care what happens to another android. Thats one of the indications we look for."Then, Miss Luft said, you must be an android.”
“I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.”
“If the last to know hes an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”
“I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.”
“#36:...Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not...”
“When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.”
“No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time bei...”
“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had...”
“I am a mask, concealing the real.”
