I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.

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

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.