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

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

Things just happen. What the hell.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.