It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

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

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.