"Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile."
— Spider Robinson (Off the Wall at Callahan's)

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
— Galileo Galilei

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

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

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1)

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
— Terry Pratchett

"You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history"
— Iain M. Banks

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. "
— Arthur C. Clarke

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said."
— A.A. Milne

"A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself."
— A.A. Milne

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. "
— Philip K. Dick

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
— Stephen King