Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.