Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.