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.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.