How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.