I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.