Quotes
Humans are great lovers of consistency, and it annoys us that cats have different rules. Even if a cat is willing to give up her life for you, that does not mean that she is willing to change her mind at your request.
When you can't depend on the Devil, who can you depend on?
Sometimes traveling people will be talking together. They will say how good it is in some places and how bad it is in others. And, sooner or later, one of them is bound to mention it. "Talk about really being out in the boondocks!" he will say, "there's a little planet named Earth —"
As regards very small celestial bodies of a light-minded nature, the law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.
This petty place cannot be Hell, Roadstrum? Ah, but it is my friend. That, you see, is the hell of it.
You shouldn't worry about what people think of you because they don't do it that often.
As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared.
Paul, there is something very slack about a future that will take a biting satire for a vapid dream.
I was definitely getting the hang of this skating thing. I'd started to copy a fancy cross-over turn from a German girl in front of me, and it was working pretty well. I was just about keeping up with her too, which was pleasing. She must have been about six.
I found a cab eventually, and told the driver in fluent English that I wanted Wenceslas Square. This request, I now know, is phonically identical to the Czech phrase for ‘I am an air-brained tourist, please take everything I have’.
It was a beautiful afternoon; one to make you realise that God really can be very good sometimes with weather and scenery.
It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.
