Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.