Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. - Douglas Adams

From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields.

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.