Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

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