I found that the rich whom I’d envied dreamed of greater riches, and that power came not from obeying the law but from not getting caught. - Jack L. Chalker

Do you drink ale, stranger?" the aged centaur asked Brazil.
"I've been known to," Brazil replied. "What do you make it out of?"
"Grains, water, and yeast!" said Yomax, surprised at the question. "What else would you make ale out of?"
"I don't know," Brazil admitted, "but I'm awfully glad you don't either.

Well, he seems to be on our side," Bat said optimistically.
"Nobody's on any side but his own," Brazil snapped back. "Not you, not me, not anybody.

To tell the truth, the only thing more exhausting than doing something is doing nothing at all.