Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.