Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

This is where you all live?" Asked John as they ascended the stairs. "It's small.""This is just our Thanksgiving house, " Scott muttered. "We have a house for every day of the year.

Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen.

Stealing is good, honest work, " Said the theif, puffing out his chest. "Well, not honest, strictly speaking, " he admitted after a moment. "Or actually good.

He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.

Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.

Scottish Play Doe was born at 4:13 a.m. on September 6th. The ink was barely dry on his father's new tattoo.

Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14.

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag, ' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.

Thank you for nothing.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.