The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

Never leave a job unfinished, unless you are unable to finish it.

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other.

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.