It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

How many roads must a man walk down?

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.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.