I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

Up until now I'd always though RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.