Ratty

“After them flyin' snakes, and floatin' spider-plants, and them yellow duck-dogs that keep peekin' at us from holes yonder-well, I can believe that we're gonna pick us apples offa pine trees, too.”
― Andre; Merwin Norton

“...and his face, triangular and ferret-like, was dominated by huge round eyes that had a kind of deranged luminosity...”
― John Jakes, Tonight We Steal the Stars / The Wagered World

“Truly, she thought, there was beauty in this fantastically retarded world...”
― Andre; Merwin Norton, Three Faces of Time / The Stars Are Ours!

“The trial became, predictably, complex; the computer-run court had nothing in its circuits to allow for the trial of five newborn infants for assault and battery, interference with officials in the performance of their duties, foul and opprobrious language, or several other things, singly or all in a lump.”
― Laurence M. Janifer , S.J. Treibich