The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.