"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."
— Steven Wright

""Step up to red alert."
"Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf" "
— Rob Grant

"The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden."
— Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light)

"A quote from Frank Herbert
"... Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain"

- from Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear,
in the book Dune by Frank Herbert (1920-1986) "
— Frank Herbert

"'Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.'

Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.""
— Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light)

"I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons."
— Kage Baker

"Indeed."
— Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)

"Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?"

"Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming."
— Roger Zelazny

"The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back."
— Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light)