New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.