Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe