Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

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

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.