“I thought the power you had was in your arms and legs and the weapons you bear?Dont forget my cock.”

“How? a still shaken Nechtan demanded.Britha had always hated to give magic as an answer. More often than not, another answer could be found.Magic, she said.”

“Du Bois didnt fully understand democracy. It seemed pointless to give people the right to self-determination when so few had any interest in it. Now that humanity had reached a certain level of com...”

“Du Bois sighed theatrically. Its as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins.”

“You know, Alexia started, I will be deeply disappointed if the apocalypse starts in Portsmouth.”

“I thought the power you had was in your arms and legs and the weapons you bear?”“Don’t forget my cock.”

“But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic perso...”

“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all ones prejudices.”

“There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike...”