You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!" "Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin' o' the arms, the foooldin' o' the aaaarmss!" cried Daft Wullie, dropping to the ground and trying to cover himself with leaves. Around him Feegles started to wail and cower and Big Yan began to bang his head on the rear wall of the dairy.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.