The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

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