Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

The city's full of people who you just see around.

First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.