I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.