"They walked down the hall of their soundproofed, Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them. Their approach sensitized a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it. Similarly, behind them, in the halls, lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity." The Veldt, p. 7

"I'll burn, he thought, and be scattered in ashes all over the continental lands. I'll be put to use. Just a little bit, but ashes are ashes and they'll add to the land." Kaleidoscope, p. 27

"'Yes, sir,' said Willie, sitting behind the wheel, rubbing his face with his slow fingers. 'Seems like for the first time today I really seen the white man—I really...