The whole of life is just like watching a click, he thought. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it all out yourself from the clues.
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
The truth isn’t easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find…
The trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only to easy to imagine.
The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn’t what was originally intended.
The trouble with being a god is that you’ve got no one to pray to.
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
