The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think I want it opened?.. To see why they wanted it shut, of course. This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.

In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played.