When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.