I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.

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