See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.