Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.

What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.