“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”

“He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.”

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”

“Mort wandered hopelessly along the winding streets. Anyone hovering at rooftop heightwould have noticed a certain pattern in the crowds behind him, suggesting a number of men converging nonchalantly on a target, and would rightly have concluded that Mort and his gold had about the same life expectancy as a three-legged hedgehog on a six-lane motorway.”

“That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.”

“Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”

“Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.”