Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.