I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.