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

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.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

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

Authority. The antithesis of science.

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.

When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

I take them 8 to 80, dumb, crippled, and crazy. Crisp and clean with no caffeine, and a pair of spandex or either tight jeans.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

When you work hard...it's only fair that you party hard.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Virtue is not hereditary.