They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.