# Quote — William Tenn, The Square Root of Man

> “Take it easy, Fatty, and we'll be all right,” I told him with all the assurance of a bank robber trying to explain to the policeman who caught him that he was only trying to deposit his gun in the vault and the cashiers misunderstood him.

- Author: [William Tenn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn.md)
- Book: [The Square Root of Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn/the-square-root-of-man.md)
- Page: 186
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Tenn#The_Square_Root_of_Man_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn/the-square-root-of-man/take-it-easy