The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.