But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.