Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.) - John Hodgman

There had been hoboes in the United States since there had been trains and liquor, which is to say, always.

So long as you refuse to ever acknowledge failure, success becomes eternal, a downward curve, always approaching failure, but never quite reaching it.

Like most experts, I've always defined a planet in common-sense terms: Can you beam down to it? Is it populated by green-skinned women? Would Galactus eat it for food?