If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

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

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.