Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.

All property is theft, except mine.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.