In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?

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

The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.

All property is theft, except mine.

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?