The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.