"He had the illusion, he said, of getting perilously close to the innermost secrets of the universe and finding they w…"

"Besides, what difference did if make if there had been two genuine coincidences? The universe was full of them. Every…"

"It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens."

"That’s what everybody’s been looking for since the Year One—something a little more than sex."

"There are vampires and vampires, and the ones that suck blood aren’t the worst."

"“You are not the first to be shocked and horrified by chess,” he assured her. “It is a curse of the intellect. It is …"

"To merit serious consideration, fiction of any sort must satisfy one pragmatic requirement (making due allowance for …"

"Work and pray, Live on hay. You’ll get pie In the sky When you die— It’s a lie!"

"To understand why George fell for this story, one must remember his stifled romanticism, his sense of personal failur…"

"I’ll have to learn to snowshoe. I had my first lesson this morning and cut a ludicrous figure. I’ll be virtually a pr…"