Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.