“Throughout the narrative you will find many statements that are obviously nonsensical and quite at variance with common sense. For the most part these are true.”

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.”

“Phd without common sense is nonsense”

“Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. ”

“Only on rare occasions was the calendar the basis of the chronology. More often than not, the narrator's sense of time is based on an internal time clock in which age and important milestones in their lives were the most common measures.”

“Tiny risks are a part of life and most of them can be further reduced (or virtually eliminated) by the simple application of common sense.”