Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")

Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

And the new day was a great big fish.