The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

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.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.