“Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.”

“Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit." - Yazi Ro”

“Lawn roller? ... What is it for?"Why it is for rolling lawns."I shook my head and laughed back at him. "Do I look like I have hay in my ears fellow? Just why, madman, would anyone want to roll a lawn? There would be nothing left but mud, and the grass would die from lack of sun."No, Korvas. Rolling means to flatten."No, it doesn't. A roller rollsa a flattener flattens."Obushawn sighed and nodded. "Very well, it is a lawn flattener. It's for flattening lawns."I see no purpose in it. If I wanted a flat lawn, that's what I would have planted in the first place. I think you are a failure at business, you obviously drink to excess, and beat your wife, dog, and children, you steal from the temple and blind beggars, and are most likely well on your way to being put away in a home. I do not want to talk to you anymore. Go away.”

“Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. ”

“You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”

“Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.”

“Knife fights are something that happen between the Sharks and the Jets, that's it. Everywhere else, it's not a fight, it's just someone trying to goddam kill you.”