"Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in l…"

"Our fellow passenger was Major Grogan, who thirty years before had been the first white man to go from the Cape to Ca…"

"Man is exogamous—all our history is one long drive to find and impregnate the stranger. Or get impregnated by him, it…"

"People, of course, seemed to need also to talk and talk, which was a pity because their talk was mostly without meaning."

"The American black who goes to Kenya often discovers he is an American first and an African second, no matter what th…"

"“Stupid,” I husked to George. “Harem slaves don’t blow up the harem and themselves just to keep the new girls out. Th…"

"Did you know you get clobbered for calling a polyglot a linguist?"

"Somewhere in his head a couple of neurones twitched, but they didn’t connect."

"Because dying, any time, is an experience you don’t survive."

"You can understand why a system would seek information—but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to…"