Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

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.

No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.