“It was no use getting angry with Wullie; he lived in a Wullie-shaped world of his own. You had to think diagonally.”
“Don't start weaving a social hypothesis in front of an angry woman holding a blade.”
“The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.”
“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”
“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”
“He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.”