I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.

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

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.