Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Leave no path untaken.

You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.