Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

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.'

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.