And so the Universe ended.

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

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

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.