I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.