# Quote — Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

> “But I can’t go along and gatecrash.”
>
> “Nonsense, of course you can come—a guest from England! You’ll be the lion of the party. Probably half a dozen film moguls from Hollywood will want to sign you up on the spot.”
>
> “All the more reason for not going,” said Kingsley.

- Author: [Fred Hoyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle.md)
- Book: [The Black Cloud](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle/the-black-cloud.md)
- Page: 53
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#The_Black_Cloud_(1957)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle/the-black-cloud/but-i-cant

## More from this book

> Losing power, utterly and completely, is the most dreadful prospect that a politician can think of. It overshadows everything else.

p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle/the-black-cloud/losing-power-utterly.md)

> “By and large, conventional religion, as many humans accept it, is illogical in its attempt to conceive of entities lying outside the Universe. Since the Universe comprises everything, it is evident that nothing can lie outside it. The idea of a ‘god’ creating the Universe is a mechanistic absurdity clearly derived from the making of machines by men. I take it that we are in agreement about all this.”

p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle/the-black-cloud/by-and-large.md)

> It’s only too easy to read your own state of mind into what other people say.

p. 168 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle/the-black-cloud/its-only-too.md)