Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.