The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

We're on a mission from Glod.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

Easter is the miracle of transformation as seen in the change of seasons, in the maturation of mortal persons, and in the resurrection of souls.

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

No one ever indoctrinated me.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.