The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Earth: mostly harmless

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.

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

One is never alone with a rubber duck.