Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

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

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.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

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.

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

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.