I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.

And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to...

I’ve always been a monster,’ Scapegrace told her, ‘but now, finally, my physical for reflects my inner darkness.”You smell terrible.”That’s the smell of evil.”It’s like rancid meat and bad eggs.”Evil,” Scapegrace insisted.

We,Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned...

Marry, don’t marry,’ Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple strudel. Just don’t have your babies unless it’s absolutely necessary.’How do I know if it’s necessary?’She stops and stares...

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.

Do you remember what we just did? Please tell me you remember what we just did.”She briefly toyed with the idea of lying and saying no, just to see the look on his face, but...

Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are...

Are you done briefing the company yet?We, um… Haven’t gotten through the introductions yet.Allow me: Time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, this is the mercenary company “Tagon’s Toughs.”Company, this is the time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, who will have become...

I’ll go,” he said.”And that’s safer because?””I’m a guy.””Right, and having a pair of dingle balls makes you invincible how?

To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

The shades of colours are splendid.

They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of...

a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.

People talk about the joy of running–of the endorphins and reaching a Zen-like clarity of mind. This had never happened to me. Mostly, all I thought about when I ran was how much further I...

Umgangsformen sind Formen, die zunehmend umgangen werden.

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

There had been a wonderful atmosphere of liberation and camaraderie. The Russians hated it.

Working hard is a fool’s anthem, getting others to work for you is the motto for every successful man.

You remind me of an old cat I once had. Whenever he killed a mouse he would bring it into the drawing-room and lay it affectionately at my feet. I would reject the corpse with...

She whispers in my ear: ‘”Tell me that you wan’ fuck me hard, make me sweat.” In the excitement, she misses out a word. “I want to fuck you so hard that your body drips...

Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn’t one of them.

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: ‘No hard feelings, everyone, but I’ve thought about it and it’s just not on, is it? It’s nearly...

Stupid werewolf ninja sperm.

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.”Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat....

You have to make choices even when there is nothing to choose from.

Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Where’s Kraven? Is he stalking me too?”His mouth went tight. “I’m not stalking you.

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.

It’s the strangest thing about this church – it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude....

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed,...

The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!”Someething dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy’s feet: a loaf of sandwich...

What can you do for love?Can you leave a person for love?Can you leave a country for love?I think I wouldn’t even leave my couch for love

Her protestations were drowned out by the sound of Gordon Honeycomb barfing up aftershock into the kitchenette sink.

I do something. I’ll try not to hurt you.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Brooke?” he finally found the sense to ask. “What are you doing here?””I need a gun.”This was not how his dream was supposed to go.

I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Humility is the best dress you can wear

I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I’ve spent my life with stories of people who don’t walk away, who...

When statistics come in saying that only 29 percent of American women would describe themselves as feminist – and only 42 percent of British women – I used to think, What do you think feminism...

The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don’t worry girls, I hit him.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

Never look in the mirror when your stressed it’s contagious

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.

Merin smiled. “I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.