Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

When much is taken, something is returned.

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.