What strange circumstances, or what odd combination of many circumstances, must occur, I wondered, to make it possible for a man to step from one wor… - Clifford D. Simak

Adams chuckled. “The evenings are always nice. The Weather boys don’t let it rain until later on, when everyone’s asleep.

They’d lived all their life on Earth; they knew nothing but the Earth. They had never really touched an alien concept, and that was all this concept was. It was not really as slimy as it seemed. It was only alien. There were a lot of alien things that could make one’s hair stand up on end while in their proper alien context they were fairly ordinary.

But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that