Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.