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

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.

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.

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?

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.