""Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind.""
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"Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out."
"The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."
"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."
"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."
"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at."
"I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts."
"I imagine that fish have no word for water."
"Words are the litmus paper of the mind."
"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease."
"What can the harvest hope for..."
"Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words."
"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"
"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."
"What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."
"This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do."
"Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous."
"And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head."
"You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing."
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."