That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).

They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately?

Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.

Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.