Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.

All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,' Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?' Stig: 'I like my head where it is.

You're dropping the bow hand as you release," he called, although Halt certainly wasn't. His mentor looked around, saw him, and replied pithily, "I believe your grandmother needs lessons in sucking eggs.

It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.

Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.