The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Things just happen. What the hell.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?