I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?