The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Never mind, never mind, let's get to the part where we smite the unrighteous. I've brought my most alarming teeth!

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.