Tom Holt

“History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.”

“You can't have a civilization without cities.”

“Poetry is what you find in the dictionary under ‘poetry’.”

“In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.”

“It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.”

“Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.”

“A society that has made a fetish of sincerity and authenticity is one that is suspicious of art.”

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

“Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.”

“Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.”

“It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.”