He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?