Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.