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1 " My loneliness began to be filled with ghosts. That is the worst thing about loneliness, how easily it becomes filled. "
― , The Big Book of Science Fiction
2 " an institution is where they put Aunt Maggy when she began collecting Wheaties in a stamp album. "
3 " in death, he is not even the ghost he was in life. "
4 " It was a trivial entertainment piece, capable of neither harm nor good. "
5 " He also got to write a book about whiskey a few years before his death from cancer, which entailed driving around Scotland and sampling the product, engendering perhaps thousands of envious curses from writers around the world. "
6 " and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars’ worth of jelly beans cascaded down on the expresstrip. "
7 " The snow came quickly, white hornets stinging in the thin atmospheric night. "
8 " The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is in deplorable condition. Those monumental rocks, once enveloped in eternal night, are lit up now, and to make matters worse, every crag is carved with initials and monograms. "
9 " Some people believe that it is all right if humans eat creatures from other planets, but when the reverse takes place they raise a hue and cry, call for military assistance, demand punitive expeditions, etc. "
10 " After the last swallow, the glass walls, deprived of humidity, decompose rather quickly, obliging drinkers to order another round immediately. "
11 " May 6. No prott. But I have been having very odd thoughts. "
12 " Mr. Martell praises your qualities as a neighbor and comments not infrequently on your excellent virtue of attending strictly to your own business. "
13 " The trouble with logic is that its relationship with reality is usually obscure. "
14 " there is a kind of connectedness between the seemingly random questions of very small kids. "
15 " fighting the same savage battles with the giant rabbits for each other’s carrion "
16 " He had brand-new pink-jade biogem eyes, and they made him look like a geriatric rabbit. "
17 " You can’t physically fear a doll only a foot and a half high. "
18 " Their settlement was famous for its dissolving architecture; at any moment a balcony might disappear and drop people to their deaths. This did not happen so often that it was monotonous, but often enough to make living there exciting. "
19 " Civilization diminishes proportionally to the distance from Paris. "
20 " I was thinking, we’re kind of distant cousins, aren’t we, us and the horses. But compared to that thing up there—we’re brothers. You know? "
