He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in… — Kurt Vonnegut

Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.