Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If that's your idea of a morally acceptable time, I might add.

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.