Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.