Quotes from The Game-Players of Titan ( 1963 )

Damn luck itself, bad luck; that's all we seem to have, any more. We're a marked race.

In the glare of the dome light of the car she examined the strip of rabbit-paper. One dead rabbit, she thought, recalling the old days (they were before her time) when a rabbit had to die for this fact in question to be determined. The strip, in the dome light, was white, not green. She was not pregnant.

Wives, Schilling thought. More of a problem than an asset. The economic aspects of our lives should never have been melded hopelessly with the sexual; it made things too complex.

Marriage had to do with the transmission of property, of lines of inheritance. And of co-operation in career-lines as well. All this emerged explicitly in The Game and dominated conditions; The Game merely dealy openly with what had been there implicitly before.

"There's a relationship between the telepathic faculty and paranoia; the latter is the involuntary reception of other people's suppressed hostile and aggressive thoughts."

"We can condone the murder but not putting the body in Mrs. Garden's car. An odd era we're living in."

"When you're eighteen you believe you know everything, you possess absolute certitude. And then when you're one hundred and fifty you know you don't."

Much could be learned about Mutreaux' psyche by this examination of what he chose to - or had to - reject from consciousness.

What I was in love with, if that's the proper word…it wasn't there anyhow, so how can I really say I've lost it? You have to possess it first to lose it.