The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Words are meaningless when there are no actions backing them up. Prove to me that you feel that way. Don't just tell me, show me.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.