Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.