Tom

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“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?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Incredible!’ breathed Arthur. ‘The people . . . ! The things . . . !’ ‘The things,’ said Ford Prefect quietly, ‘are also people.’ ‘The people . . .’ resumed Arthur, ‘the . . . other people . . .”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Just adding (for some only mind number ONE)4 ‘I, I shall go in, when the major has done:’ The Sub, who was, now, a most terrible plight, in; And, not quite aware of priority S---ING, Squeez’d awhile; ‘Well!’ says he, ‘then, the best friends MUST PART;’ Crap! Crap! ’twas a moist one! a right Brewer’s ****! And, finding it vain, to be stopping the lake; ‘Zounds!’ says he, ‘then, here goes man! I’ve brew’d; so, I’ll bake.”
― Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language