Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?