The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).