The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe with our moral insufficiency.

The ultimate technological achievement will be escaping from the mess we've made. There will be none after that because we will reproduce everything that we did on earth, we'll go through the whole sequence all over again somewhere else, and people will read my paper as prophecy, and know that having gotten off one planet, they will be able to destroy another with confidence.

She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.

Es una especie de cárcel, la mente del cerebro. Tenemos estos misteriosos cerebros de mil trescientos gramos, y nos encarcelan.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick, the book that swallowed European civilization whole.

Mi único trauma es la vida.

You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed.