Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.