To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.