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It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy.

Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I

Quite frankly, I don't like you humans. After what you all have done,
I find being 'inhuman' a compliment.

There's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

One of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile.

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze - and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

Hey Jake. I got an idea.'
'Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

Callahan's Law:
Shared pain is lessened;
Shared joy is increased.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

It's always coldest before the warm.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

Time didn't pass; it tailgated.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

God is an iron ... and that's a hot one.

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
human, not the other way around.

anger is always fear in disguise

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of
Heaven first ...

honesty is hard work.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

I conclude you must be a natural horses's ass.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

it's better than a stick in the eye

Smugness was an art invented by the race of imps, no matter what cats might claim, so he did it very well indeed,

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

He smiled like a sun lamp.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.