And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

We’ll meet the meat.

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.