"Both time and reality have always been regarded suspiciously in the Village, and various pharmaceutical concoctions a…"

"I’m giving up everything I can’t stand for Lent."

"“What will people say?” “Who,” I asked, “is going to tell them?”"

"Let’s set a precedent and try to approach this thing logically."

"The deadline was two months earlier, but like myself Mike considered deadlines in financial rather than chronological…"

"Everybody seemed to be in show business; what the hell had happened to the audience?"

"All of this did not take long, because when I argue with myself I always have the uncomfortable knowledge that I’m go…"

"Jake was being Subtle, which was only laughable; when he was straightforward he was incomprehensible."

"“I opposed this (the invasion of Earth),” it (the alien) continued, “having doubts about the validity or usefulness o…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."