American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.