Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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.

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.