Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.