Robert Asprin Quotes

He'll get a life sentence for the illegal trafficking alone and probably a death sentence for the people he killed along the way." He sighed slightly. "I always did fancy happy endings.

No matter how you look at it," Margo muttered, "when you get down to it, human beings aren't really much better than killer plains apes, are they? Just a thin sugar-coating of civilization to make 'em look prettier.

You know," Malcolm remarked to no one in particular, "I'd say that chap doesn't enjoy time travel.

Playing God was a sweetly addictive game.

So fare the fortunes of men, Skeeter thought bitterly, when seven wolves and a sheep decide what’s for lunch. Perfect democracy: everybody got to vote. Even the lunch.

The more I learn about history, the more savage I find it was.

The more chaotic the world, the greater the need for ritual.

Skeeter just couldn’t figure out what was so horrible about taking a good, long, clear-eyed look at one’s past and facing whatever one found in it. Making up the past to fit whatever idea some politically correct group wanted to pass off as reality this week seemed a lot more dangerous to him than facing brutal facts.

It operates very much like the social structure of a nomadic tribe. Those in the brotherhood are fully human; those outside are not.

Fools have a way of discovering...that the laws of time travel, like the laws of physics, have no pity and no remorse.

It is jihad, Mr. Morgan, a particularly virulent, fundamentalist form of hatred.

All the years he’d spent fooling himself into thinking that what he did was correct was simply time wasted from his life, on delusions and fantasies that kept him from seeing what he was and where he was inevitably headed with genuine clarity.

Bull Morgan was just the right man for the job, a man who found the law useful in how far it could occasionally be bent to save a friend.

Careless is stupid, he snarled at himself, and stupid can be fatal.

Education," he smiled, "is never a waste of time.