Speak Strine
Never use two syllables when one will do; never use three syllables when two will do; never use four syllables.
Mindquake
We need a Richter scale for major personal events that rattle our core, shake our life, leave fissures in our psyche. Sometimes we can put books back on our mental shelves, replace broken windows, rebuild fallen walls. But sometimes the mind is left all out of joint forever.
Sapience
Religion is the proof you can get human beings to believe any nonsense; Science is the proof that you can’t
Whale Killers
Just when you think the Japanese are becoming more civilised the harpoons come out of storage and the seas boil with blood again
Card Sharp
I think I played the cards I was dealt as well as I could, but at times it was tempting to go for misere
Claustrophobia
Another house coming soon; that will be ten within these ten square kilometres; no wonder I begin to feel very crowded.
Unforgivable
I can forgive the Russians many things, most things even, but I can’t forgive them for Laika
Any time between…
If you could save all the hours you spend in your life waiting for tradesmen to arrive you could live for an extra year.