It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If that's your idea of a morally acceptable time, I might add.

When I am old I shall wear midnight.

Everything is a test.

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.