The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.