“I mistrust these artificial things,” O’Malley said. “Food doesn’t gro — Michael Kurland

"It’s what a man thinks is true which controls his actions, not what is really true."

"I don’t like eating in the dark. Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they’re trying to hide the food."

"“Well, what that means is that it doesn’t happen very often. Now it’s happened to one small group of people—us—twice in a short time. That would seem to indicate that,” he ticked a finger, “something’s seriously out of whack in general, or,” he ticked the next finger, “someone’s out to get us in particular; which I feel is quite unlikely. At times in my paranoid past I would have assumed that the Universe is teaming up to get me, but now I’m more objective and I don’t believe that. I think it, but I don’t believe it.”"

"“A lot of things seem to be happening, all at once,” I told Chester. “Enemy action,” he replied. “Huh?” “That’s what you told me once. An old Army motto you found when you were doing those war books. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. This is the third time.”"

"“God is just,” he said. “Just what?” I asked. “Just watching.”"

"I am not in the habit of letting someone else decide what I can and cannot do."