Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

It's a god-eat-god world.

The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.