High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on.
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn’t.
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.
Being offended by things is the world’s big hobby at the moment. It’s almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.
I didn’t notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
I don’t say that I don’t believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.
Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Why’ is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go ‘A B C D What? When? How?’ but it does go ‘V W X Why? Z.
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it’s throat.
The light was only just visible – except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
The little waiter’s eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.