The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."