Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.