Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?