Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

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

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.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e. that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali.