Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.