Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.