22 quotes found
“We're on a mission from Glod.”
“The fastest way to travel is to be there already.”
“Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?”
“TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.”
“Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
“It didn't have a name. Animals don't normally bother with them.”
“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”
“The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generou...”
“There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just n...”
“A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong ...”
“The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.”
“Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.”
“Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.”
“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for propriety and thought she knew how this sort of thi...”
“The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.”
“I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.”
“There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night. And it's important to remember that the creatures of the night aren't simply the people of the day staying up late because they thin...”
“In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.”
