If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

What's the orbital velocity of the moon?

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.