Top Highlights

• The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as ‘Things just happen. What the hell.’
• Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
• one of the symptoms of those going completely yoyo was that they broke out in chronic cats.
• study was never a one-way thing. A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both. Death had picked up . . . humanity. Not the real thing, but something that might pass for it until you examined it closely.
• ‘That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh.