In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.