Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.