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

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'