He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‘em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.