"Educational" refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheesebu… - Terry Pratchett

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty: He had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose. On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I'd met a decent theologian when I was nine.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.