All your tomorrows start here.

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.

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?

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.