No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.