Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.