We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.