Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

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.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.