Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.