I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

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

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion.

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.