We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

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

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

... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.