"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
— Douglas Adams

"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind."
— Jeffrey Eugenides

"People, generally, suck."
— Christopher Moore

"Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car."
— Christopher Moore (Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings)

"Science you don't know looks like magic."
— Christopher Moore

". . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso."
— Christopher Moore (A Dirty Job)

"War is what happens when language fails."
— Margaret Atwood

"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups."
— Margaret Atwood