After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one’s head against the universe until something gives?
Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention’s father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn’t been heard of since.
When you’re about to die, your whole life’s supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.
He believes it’s time to redesign Evil from the ground up; to face the challenges and opportunities of a diverse, rapidly changing society.“He’s thinking of calling it,” said Miss Gold, “New Evil.
Mr Winckler clapped his hands together. “Evil, as personified by me. Meet the new Dark Lord. But you can call me Albert.
There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms – if you don’t know how to do it properly, it’s best not to try.
How careless of me!” By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.
{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.
If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he’d have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.
As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.
Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don’t and haven’t, but that’s my problem.
Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.