People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.