Source: Morrigan's Cross
“You piss me off you Salmon… You're too expensive in restaurants.”
“But if you shoot at everyone you see,
Can't be my friend 'cause you might shoot at me.”
When a Kid Goes Bad
Lyrics, The Last DJ (2002)
“You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.”
"The Craft" - interview with Daniel Whiston, Engine Comics (January 2005)
Context: Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire then, three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing at what a twat you were.
“Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won’t shoot your foot off.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)
Source: Miles in Love
"Rat Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21984 (1974)
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
I said, “As long as they’re laughing, it doesn’t matter.”
“Ozzy Osbourne: The Rolling Stone Interview”, (July 25, 2002)
