He takes every change that has taken place over the past two hundred years as a personal affront. - Michael Kurland

We are greatly complimented, my lord," Marquis Sherrinford said dryly. "You don't think we're gibbering madmen.

Well, what that means is that it doesn't happen very often. Now it's happened to one small group of people—us—twice in a short time. That would seem to indicate that," he ticked a finger, "something's seriously out of whack in general, or," he ticked the next finger, "someone's out to get us in particular; which I feel is quite unlikely. At times in my paranoid past I would have assumed that the Universe is teaming up to get me, but now I'm more objective and I don't believe that. I think it, but I don't believe it.

“How are you on the high wire?”
“Wire walking? It’s simple. Any child of ten can do it—with about fourteen years practice.