"But do you believe they really teleported?" "I do. For instance, the guru with whom I spent time, under whom I studied this summer in Tibet, tells m… - Fredric Brown

I want men who, like you, would not take orders even if I should give them. I do not want to be a god, Crag, even though I have some powers beyond mankind’s; I would not let my new world be colonized by people who might even be tempted to obey me.

The ever-present possibility of making a big mistake worried him.
He’d have worried about it more if he’d known that he already had.

She was sleeping. He nudged her gently and whispered a suggestion. Her eyes opened wide and startled. "No, no, a dozen times no!"
"Only a doezen times?" he asked, and then leered. "My deer," he whispered, "think of the fawn you'll have!"