You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.