To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.