The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps, ' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.

Insanity is catching.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

But what's worth more than gold?""Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty.

The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.