> "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'"

I somehow got interested by quote and searched it (as is?) on duckduckgo to find a relevant reddit discussion where people were (are?) discussing trains and many other things.

Interesting quote to say the least. Here's the relevant reddit discussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/hqtgyg/tuesd...

IIRC, it was from his first Dirk Gently book.