I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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.