Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.