Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.