Chances are where you find them

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart