"Oh, I read good books, too, but only Earthside. Why that is, I don't really know. Never stopped to analyze it. Good b…"

"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes."

"He is no parasite on anything, whose work is real: a mechanic, a doctor, a builder, a tailor, a dishwasher. What, in …"

"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."

"Not everything everywhere is for us."

"My past had disappeared. Not that I believed for a moment that this was an accident; in fact, I had suspected for som…"

"The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than h…"

"If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently."

"Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet…"

"And do you believe in God?" "I do." "But you didn't think a robot would, right?" "Right."