The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.