There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexpli...
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.
The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.
On the wall was a Duran Duran poster on which someone had scrawled in fat red felt tip, Take this down please.Beneath that another hand had scrawled, No.Beneath that again the first hand had written,...
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
Kate wondered for a moment how it was that eyes conveyed such an immense amount of information about their owners. They were, after all, merely spheres of white gristle. They hardly changed as they go...
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
I live in what are known as hopes. I hope for fascinating and remunerative cases, my secretary hopes that I will pay her, her landlord hopes that she will produce some rent, the Electricity Board hope...
I asked him if he'd come to clean the windows and he said no he'd come to demolish the house. He didn't tell me straight away of course. Oh no. First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a five...
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.
But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment.I've seen it. It's rubbish, said Zaphod,nothing but a gnab gib.A what?Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.
As if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.
Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding...
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need—for which you need more money.
Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight w...
What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, craz...
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional...