"Dr. Carrington, you're a man who won the Nobel Prize. You've received every kind of international kudos a scientist can attain. If you were for sale I could get a million bucks for you from any foreign government. I'm not, therefore, gonna stick my neck out and say you're stuffed absolutely clean full of wild blueberry muffins, but I promise my readers are gonna think so."

"There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied."

"An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles!"

"So few people can boast that they've lost a flying saucer and a man from Mars -all in the same day! Wonder what they'd have done to Columbus if he'd discovered America, and then mislaid it."

"We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die... without destroying a source of wisdom."

"No pleasure, no pain... no emotion, no heart. Our superior in every way."

"WHAT IS IT?"

"Miss Bragg: That is the kind of woman that makes whole civilizations topple!"

"Professor Gurkakoff: [discovering Sugarpuss gave back the wrong ring] The subconscious never makes a mistake. She gave you the ring she didn't want - his ring - and she kept the one she wanted - yours."

"You know, I was kinda counting on Sugarpuss to tell ya the score. Trouble is, she's all right givin' out with the twists and the wisecracks, but when it comes to leveling off she gets chicken."

"Kathleen Howard — Miss Bragg"

"We're working under pressure. After nine years of effort, we are, as the race track enthusiast might say, in the home stretch. Three more years and our encyclopedia will be finished. Let's not bog down in the middle of the letter S."

"Aubrey Mather — Professor Peagram"

"Dan Duryea — Duke Pastrami"

"Richard Haydn — Professor Oddley"

"[to Sugarpuss] I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body."

"Leonid Kinskey — Professor Quintana"

"[about Potts] Yes, I love him. I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. Looks like a giraffe, and I love him. I love him because he's the kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. Love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk!"

"Ralph Peters — Asthma Anderson"