When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Magic never dies. It merely fades away.