“Pay, are all paymasters dishonest?” “Only the good ones.” - Robert A. Heinlein

“Peewee!” I said sharply. “You're not listening.”
“What were you doing talking,” she answered reasonably, “when I wasn’t listening?”

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America — -and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Serbia, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated. He was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an otherwise useless piece of royalty, and to this day I have never been able to understand why this event could cause Germany to invade Belgium a month later.