Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

You're sick. Sick and evil and weird.

Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.