The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e. that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali.

It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.