Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.