“Good music always defeats bad luck.”

“I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.”

“I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!”

“One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.”

“Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.”

“Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.”

“The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.”

“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses...”

“Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature.- Yes; it's a funny habit.- No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, howe...”

“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”

“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”

“The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.”