“When serious scientists with huge beards aren't looking, I jocularly refer to these fossils as my alien goldfish. Picture the scene: the giant spaceship is parked on a wide beach, and kicking pebbles Commodore Grafnik is in a filthy mood. Yet another planet with hundreds of millions of years to go before intelligence evolves, not even at the zorkquaan stage, for Threga's sake! And as for his pet vlantans!! Purchased at huge expense, all they do is feed voraciously and then fall asleep. Still fuming, Grafnik carries the bowl down to the lagoon edge and (contrary to every regulation in the AIPC [Access to Inhabited Planets Code]) tips the vlantans out. They dart away and several months later enter the fossil record of a planet where they have no right to be.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 830)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

Source: Max

Source: Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth

The Monthly Magazine

Statements to press (20 February 2005), on serving with former political rival Bill Clinton in their efforts to raise money for tsunami recovery.

Stating the populations of the two East European countries - Britain to be 'swamped' by millions of immigrants http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/289618/Britain-to-be-swamped-by-millions-of-immigrants/, Daily Star, 24 December 2012.
2012

p, 125
"Multiversality" (2013)