Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.