What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.