Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.