"The Light Fantastic" Quotes

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian's opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

If cats looked like frogs, we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

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

Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiraling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.