"Idleness, theft, and viciousness dishonor your mother who in pain bore you."

“A nation needs clear rules on what happens in the case of a disputed succession. Surely there’s a Queen’s Bedchamber Mace or someone who knows.”

“If he met resistance he threw men at it; if the obstacle was insurmountable he went around it; if the odds were hopeless he trusted in Jippir”

“It’s a little too early to play curmudgeon and complain that the kids today don’t have the patience to read long web pages.”

“The invariable sign of doctrines invented by men is confusion, contradiction, absurdity, and obscenity”

“What harms no other is not sin.”

“Rejecting Chomsky is almost a full time job. He keeps changing his mind, so you have to study quite a lot of Chomsky before you know all the stuff you can reject.”