I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.