"Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them."

“The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.”

“The mind is the reality. You are what you think.”

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

“Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.”

“He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.”

““That’s me,” he said, motioning to the robot. “That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.”