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

A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.