“Insane was probably the right word, but Clawdeen preferred determined.”
“Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
“Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones.”
“Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.”
“Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.”