The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.