It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.