Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

And the new day was a great big fish.