But what's worth more than gold?""Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

Insanity is catching.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.

The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps, ' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

Never trust easy promises and large words. Easily said...easily taken away.

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.

You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.

When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.