"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.