Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.
But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
What can the harvest hope for...
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.
Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.
Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.
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