If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae