Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.