This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

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

There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.