The casket was lined with lovely velvet, which must have felt lovely even to the dead, but the glowing man continued to rip up the casket.

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.

Never. I promise you this: they will stay together. They will be safe. My children will be accompanying them to the same home.

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?

I should have been the King of Earth, or at least that's what my memory tells me...

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

The materials are mostly from living beings - living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials.

You knew those people could be temperamental.

God damn, do I have to be y'all's babysitter?

When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.