I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

'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 Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.