“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”

“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”

“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

“Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab.”

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”