Small Gods:
Overview
For a very few, the sky's the limit.
And, sometimes, not even that.
[p. 11]
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
[p. 84]
When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.
[p. 93]
'Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.
'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.
[p. 112]
[...] the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different.
For sheep are stupid and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent and have to be led.
[p. 127]
'Winners never talk about glorious victories. That's because they're the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterwards. It's only the losers who have glorious victories.'
[p. 136]
'We get that in here some nights, when someone's had a few. Cosmic speculation about whether the gods exist. Next thing, there's a bolt of lightning through the door with a note wrapped round it saying, "Yes, we do" and a pair of sandals with smoke coming out.'
[p. 158]
'Life's like a beach. And then you die.'
[p. 234]
'We'll never make it alive!'
CORRECT.
[p. 239]
'Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.'
[p. 253]
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
[p. 327]
'I think, if you want thousands, you've got to fight for one.'
[p. 369]