It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.