What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".