"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.