What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.