Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.