Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

What's the orbital velocity of the moon?

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

Fate can be one mean god at times.