And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

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

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.