It was her turn to be taken aback; her eyes fell, scorched by the blaze in his. He had lured her into levity.
Kiss me like you want to get slapped.
I’d rather kiss a Wookie.
Helen’s technique may have lacked polish, but it had enthusiasm, as he found when he tried to stop her from kissing him.
Woman… Friend… Wife…
Well, I may not be the swiftest guy in the world, even when I’m not hung over, but I do seem to remember a process where you people ask me questions and I give you answers and then I ask questions and you give me answers and that’s the way we find out things. I think I read that in a manual somewhere.
You’ll forgive my impertinence, but even though we have never before met, I have always considered you as a father to me.
Luke, I AM your father!
Buzz, you could have defeated Zurg all along! You just got to believe in yourself!
It is a demonically difficult rag, which Eubie wrote for the specific purpose of humiliating his competitors, and Eddie takes a crack at it maybe once or twice a year.
If you knock this wall down the crack would stay put 'cause the crack isn’t in the wall.
Look, Abe, look, I’m not going to pretend like I know anything, okay, about paradoxes, you know, or what follows them.
You can’t allow him to cross his own time stream. Apart from the enormous energy it would need, the First Law of Time expressly forbids him to meet his other selves.
We’re from your future. A time warp landed us back here. It was an accident.
Let’s dooo the time warp agaaaain!
But I don’t have a parachute!
Watch that first step… it’s a killer!
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.
This is a complete record of its thought from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.
Ah . . . ! What's happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?
What do I mean by who am I?
Oh no, not again.
Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an interesting what is it?
It's sort of . . . yawning, tingling sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I'd better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let's call it my stomach.
Good. Ooooh, it's getting quite strong. And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It'll do . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found out what it's for.
It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What's this thing? This . . . let's call it a tail - yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good, can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on. Now, have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.
Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation . . . Or is it the wind?
There really is a lot of that now, isn't there? And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide-sounding name like . . . ow . . . ound . . . round . . . ground! That's it! That's a good name- ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
Hello Ground!
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.I know how alone you feel… alone in all that cold blackness… but I’m there in the dark with you. Oh Bud you’re not alone… Oh, God. You remember that time - you were pretty drunk, you probably don’t remember - but the power went out in that little apartment we had on Orange Street? We were staring at that one little candle, and I, I said something really dumb like, that candle was me, and like every one of us is out there alone in the dark in this life… and you just, you just lit up another candle and you put it beside mine and said “No! See, that’s me. That’s me”… and we stared at the two candles, and then… well, if you remember any of this, I’m sure you remember the next part. But there are two candles in the dark. I’m with you. I’ll always be with you Bud, I promise that.
Oh no, not again.