The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

It's a god-eat-god world.