Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Better safe than exsanguinated.

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.

Ease off the martyr throttle.