Robert Asprin

"Bull Morgan was just the right man for the job, a man who found the law useful in how far it could occasionally be bent to save a friend."

"But—as Kit and Sven had been so fond of saying—the Universe didn’t give beans for “fair.” It simply was. You got it right or paid the price."

"When it comes to scouts, heroes are just people who confuse cowardice with common sense."

"“You know,” Malcolm remarked to no one in particular, “I’d say that chap doesn’t enjoy time travel."

"All the years he’d spent fooling himself into thinking that what he did was correct was simply time wasted from his life, on delusions and fantasies that kept him from seeing what he was and where he …"

"The more I learn about history, the more savage I find it was."

"“Education,” he smiled, “is never a waste of time."

"“No matter how you look at it,” Margo muttered, “when you get down to it, human beings aren’t really much better than killer plains apes, are they? Just a thin sugar-coating of civilization to make ’e…"