Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell

I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

You know, like that old Catch 42 expression that stands for the meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed.

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)