I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.