Immortality, Inc. Quotes

“Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.”
― Robert Sheckley, Immortality, Inc.

“a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him. A man contains all these things, but he is greater than their total.”
― Robert Sheckley, Immortality Inc.

“You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him.”
― Robert Sheckley, Immortality, Inc.

“Nate might be a poor dumb bastard, but at least he wasn’t a dishonest, fraudulent dumb bastard, and that ought to count for something.”
― Aaron Elkins, Murder in the Queen's Armes