We’re in a psuedoscientific technobabble.

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton–go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday–I don’t know...

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

Believe me, you’re going to have to do much worse than this–in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer–and at your hands.

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.

Edward, Edward,” he said with a patronising smile, “there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can’t find the correct answer then...

Literary detection and firearms don’t really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five...

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Another one of your quippy japes?

Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.

Pretty?’ I said, swivelling in the driver’s seat to face him, ‘you want to ask me out because I’m pretty?’ ‘Is there a problem with asking you out because you’re pretty?’ ‘I think you blew...

History has rewritten itself so many times I’m not really sure how it was to begin with — it’s a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it’s been repainted...

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire – or the propensity for fillings to fall out...

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Outside Styx’s apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and...

I’m beginning to think you’re the sort of person who does a great deal with very little.”He meant a liar.

She looked around at the close confines of the NCD offices. They were cramped and untidy. No. They were worse than that. They had gone through cramped and untidy, paused briefly at small and shabby...

I’ve managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,” she announced with some small sense of achievement. “I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still...

…Negligible Senescence…

There’s more to good or bad than what’s written in the Rulebook.

The front room of his house was what I called ‘untidy chic’. Prefects weren’t subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness...