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.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely.