"Today, I noticed that the females are at last carrying egg cases. They continue to listen to me, even to my voice on the tapes when I play them back. Now I know it's an irrational thought, but they even seem to watch me. And certainly lately, they've taken to forming different sorts of patterns."

"The Parmiters are sensing the more powerful. They seem to know they'll live only as long as I allow them to."

"The Parmiters will eat only raw meat, any kind. I'm not gonna have enough here to satisfy their appetites. I'm gonna have to get some more, but the astonishing fact is that they will only eat as a combined single unit."

"They've become adults in five hours, and they're a combination of both parents and are like either one. Elongated, brownish in color, with two tightened clone-like projections on their head. And spotted segments on the back."

"September 18th, 10:20 A.M. The egg case has tripled in size in just 24 hours. I wonder... I wonder what kind of creatures this new generation will be. I've already decided to name them Parmiterra Hephaestus. Hephaestus for the Greek god of fire, Parmiterra for me."

"She wouldn't let me anywhere near it. That fire bug is protecting the egg case even though she's under terrific atmospheric pressure. It's incredible. You can almost feel her pain. Never mind. The egg should incubate at sea level pressure."

"September 16th, 4 A.M. The male is dead from the pressure, but the mating was successful. I'm about to depressurize to transfer the egg case. The fire bug... I'll keep it alive just as long as necessary."

"September the 12th at 2 A.M. I've just placed a large male hustle roach into the tank to determine if copulation with the fire bug is possible. And I've simulated the atmosphere in which both insects should be able to function."

"I don't intend to be restrained by timidity on the part of my own staff!"

"Michael Mark — Dr. Eric Zinthrop"

"William Roerick — Arthur Cooper"

"Barboura Morris — Mary Dennison"

"Anthony Eisley — Bill Lane"

"Susan Cabot — Janice Starlin"

"Strong men forced to satisfy a passion no human knows."

"Horror Of The Winged Menace!"

"A beautiful woman by day - a lusting queen wasp by night."

"Arthur Cooper: I'd stay away from wasps if i were you, Mrs. Starlin. Socially the queen wasp is on the level with a Black Widow spider. They're both carnivorous, they paralyze their victims and then take their time devouring them alive. And they kill their mates in the same way, too. Strictly a one-sided romance."

"Something's happening to me. I can't control it."

"Vincent Price — Francois Delambre"

"I can transport matter — anything — at the speed of light, perfectly. Of course this is only a crude beginning, but I've stumbled on the most important discovery since man sawed off the end of a tree trunk and found the wheel. The disintegrator-integrator will change life as we know it. Think what it means. Anything, even humans, will go through one of these devices. No need for cars or railways or airplanes, even spaceships. We'll set up matter-receiving stations throughout the world, and later the universe. There'll never be famine. Surpluses can be sent instantaneously at almost no cost, anywhere. Humanity need never want or fear again. I'm a very fortunate man, Hélène."

"God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible."

"The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox."

"The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous."

"No, Helene and Andre believed in the sacredness of life. They wouldn't harm anything... not even a fly."

"You've committed murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head."

"Help! Help me! Please help me! Help me!"

"The monster created by atoms gone wild."

"She had to kill the thing her husband had become—but could she?"

"If she looked upon the horror her husband had become... she would scream for the rest of her life!"

"David Hedison — Andre Delambre"

"Patricia Owens — Helene Delambre"

"Herbert Marshall — Inspector Charas"

"Kathleen Freeman — Emma"

"[finding a cockroach on a half-eaten sandwich] That is the biggest, greasiest bug I've ever seen. [The cockroach flies off and Joe shrugs before taking a bite out of the sandwich]"

"Graham Dewar - Pizza delivery guy"

"Nick Zedd - customer"