It was better to belong where you don’t belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.
It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.
It takes a long time for anything to happen inside the head of an ox, but, when it does, it happens extensively.
It occurred to him that when you’d had everything, all that was left was nothing.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what – you’re attempting can’t be done.
It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego.
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
It is the fate of all banisters worth sliding down that there is something nasty waiting at the far end.
It is said that the opposite of noise is silence. This isn’t true. Silence is only the absence of noise.
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers.
