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

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.