Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine, but a certain amount of civilized comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.

— K.W. Jeter

All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defense; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that the apple was hedged with every warning imaginable. So I too fell; perhaps all sins are not causes but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom.

— K.W. Jeter

And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.

— K.W. Jeter

It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's hills and rivers, to return to that home where he was first kindly treated. The warm fire, by which he sleeps even now, and the fattening dish will be his rewards to the end of his days.

— K.W. Jeter

That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains.

— K.W. Jeter

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

— K.W. Jeter

What is the future going to be like, then?' 'Hey, it's going to be a gas,' Scale assured me. 'If you're into machines and stuff - like I am - you'd go for it. People are going to have all kinds of shit. Do whatever they want with it. That's why it didn't faze me when ol' Ben dray first told me about wanting to blow up the world. Hey - in the Future, everybody will want to!

— K.W. Jeter