SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

Everything is a test.

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)