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

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.