It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.