“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”

“It’s unbelievable that after more than 30 years in the game, pummeling a guy with his loafer will be my legacy. But I guess it's better than having no legacy at all.”

“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”

“The past is… much more uncertain—or even falsely reported—than is usually recognized.”

“I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.”

“In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.”

“There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”

“The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.”

“"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.”

“… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.”