Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.