Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.