People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.