over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.