Quotes
To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
The others are even more likely to obey their god.
Which is?
It dangles between their legs.
Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
"No one is discriminated against more than alive people discriminate against the dead. Nobody is as badly marginalized. If the dead are portrayed in popular culture it's as zombies...vampires...ghosts, always something threatening to the living."
If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
"Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it."
If there's a trick to doing a job you hate... Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.
Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
