I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.

"Don't Panic." It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

"Immortals are what you wanted," said Thor in a low, quiet voice. "Immortals are what you got."

The mail on the doormat consisted of the usual things: a rude letter threatening to take away his American Express card, an invitation to apply for an American Express card, and a few bills of the more hysterical and unrealistic type.

You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.