You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others’ pain and loss.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

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

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.