Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

Man just went past with a cat on his head.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.