How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

If you cannot be happy with the little you have, you can be confused with the lot you want to have

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.

Okay, if there's one thing you don't ever say to a woman on the edge it's that she's hormonal.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

Pleasure itself is not a vice