Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.