“Don't think too much. You'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place.”

“Think about it, but don't think too much. If you think too much you'll end up doing nothing.”

“You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.”

“Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.”

“If you don't think too good, don't think too much.”

“More sheltering is rarely an antidote for too much in the first place.”