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.

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

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

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

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