If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.