"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It won't be long.' Richard stared in disbelief. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?' The Professor looked blankly at him.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.