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

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

When much is taken, something is returned.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.