So much universe, and so little time.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.