A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

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

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

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

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.