Alas, Babylon Quotes

As they unloaded, Randy considered the Henrys. They were a special problem. They were black and they were poor but in many ways closer to him than any family in Fort Repose. (3.48)

[Florence] glanced up, apprehensively, through the kitchen window. [...] They had no right to put those Sputniks up there to spy on people. (1.6)

"This time, they're not resigning the game. They'd still like to win the war without a war, but if we make any military countermove, we're going to receive it." (2.80)

"As soon as you get a job, I'll follow you. If you want, we can live together for a while. If it's good, we can get married." [...]"Too late," he said (3.90)

In this second Randy made an important decision. Yesterday, he would have stopped instantly. [...] But yesterday was a past period in history. (5.69)

With the use of the hydrogen bomb, the Christian era was dead, and with it must die the tradition of the Good Samaritan. (5.69)

Randy knew he wasn't an alcoholic because an alcoholic craved liquor. He never craved it. He just drank for pleasure. (1.23)

It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. [...] Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years. (6.186-187)