There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.