I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.

Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.