Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.