Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

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

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

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.