"Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack."

“I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.”

“Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.”

“You aren’t really jumping through time, that’s the illusion; what you’re actually doing is leaving one timestream and jumping to—maybe even creating—another. The second one is identical to the one you just left, including all of the changes you made in it—up to the instant of your appearance. At that moment, simply by the fact of your existence in it, the second timestream becomes a different timestream. You are the difference.”

““You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that.”

“Now you see why I hate to leave my lab. It tires me out too much to have to do other people’s thinking for them.”

“I’ve always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.”