He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to realise a sheet of paper was stuck to his face.

I'm psychologically equipped for this.

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?