I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

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

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.