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 giv….

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he ….

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy..

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….

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant..

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

Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by P….

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it..

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try..

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

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot.

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - bu….

Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has th….

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.

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

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet..

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton..

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot….