Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.