Quotes from The Electric Ant ( 1969 )

All heavy-set women like to mother people, he thought. And they're dangerous; if they fall on you they can kill you.

"What," poole said, "is an electric ant?" But he knew; he could decipher the term. A nurse said, "An organic robot."

Do I want to interfere with the reality tape? And if so, why? Because, he thought, if I control that, I control reality.

My universe is lying within my fingers, he realised. If I can just figure out how the damn thing works.