I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Life is wasted on the living.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.