Robert Sheckley

is. But we protect rights, not victims. Your rights are not being violated.

“Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.”

There was something of the fanatic about her, of the dedicated revolutionary; but he suspected that her cause was herself.

Mars to Centaurus and back, back and forth, in an old rust tub that’s going to blow herself up one of these—”

he was simultaneously predictable and unfathomable—a routine miracle.