Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.