Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

The places where trails do not exist are not well marked.

The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)

People are afraid to own their own homes. People are afraid their own government will catch them fixing their houses.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.