It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.