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

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

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.

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.

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Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.