I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point