They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.