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

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.