Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

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.