I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.