Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

So many things to see, people to do.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.