If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.