What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

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

Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.