People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.