Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

Individuals aren’t naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are…well…human beings. He was also spiraling inward, as tends to happen in cases like this.

Sybil Ramkin lived in the kind of poverty that was only available to the very rich, a poverty approached from the other side.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.