“Did he say who he was?” asked Scott. “I asked him,” said Ariel. “He sort of laughed and said he was between… — Tim Powers

I owe a fortune in student loans, and after I got my degree in education and tried to apply it, I caught on that the emperor had no clothes—

“Doesn’t she read chicken entrails?”

“Oh! No, astrology.”

“Same sort of thing.”

“I’d offer you a drink,” he said, “but all I have is the good stuff.”