I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

Some people are born to weirdness,” Jerry said, “and others have weirdness thrust upon them.

Apparently I couldn’t even pretend to be normal.

You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.

It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

It was at this time that I formed one of my own insights: it was strange how intelligent people, like Raffles, without being asked, freely spout off their insights and actually expect less intelligent people, like me, to be interested.

You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.