Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

I like being a writer.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!