I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

How many roads must a man walk down?

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.