"He instituted this, er, Chair of Chronology to see if there was any particular reason why one thing happened after another and if there was any way of stopping it. Since the answers to the three questions were, I knew immediately, yes, no, and maybe, I realized I could ten take the rest of my career off." Chap. 4, p. 18

"Although the major part of his mind was firm in its eternal and unshakable Belief that there would be a Door behind the outcrop, and that The Door would be The Way, yet the tiny part of his brain that understood about the water bottle could not help but recall past disappointments and sounded a very tiny but jarring note of caution." Chap. 5, p. 42

"Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing to his astonishment at what happened next." Chap. 7, p. 63

"Except, of course, that he didn't...