There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.