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• There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
  • My Name Escapes Me (Penguin, 1997), 1st paperback edition, p. 57

• ...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
  • A Positively Final Appearance (Penguin, 1999), 3rd hardback edition, p. 2