While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

Future is like an asshole. Everybody has one.---John Taylor (Nightside Series)

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?