Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief