You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.