A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.