You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

You called me and said you were home and wanted to go out for a pizza." "I did? What time is it?" "Time for pizza," [Catarina] replied.

I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.

I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..." Tessa stared. "Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master,' or 'the magister,' either. More's the pity.

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.