When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.