I keep telling you: it's the mystery that endures. Not the explanation
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
I believe that ideas do not have to be correct to exist. I
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
Hold fast, he called. Tell me your names, and your stations.I am the Lady Door, said Door. I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch.I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard.Richard Mayhew, said Richar...
Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true.She lived through the war. In 1959 she came to America. She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, wit...
He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.
He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man has...
He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, mu...
Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?
Fantasy—and all fiction is fantasy of one kind or another—is a mirror. A distorting mirror, to be sure, and a concealing mirror, set at forty-five degrees to reality, but it’s a mirror nonetheless, wh...
Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?''Possible, but very unlikely. Why?
Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...
Did it hurt? asked Bod. Letting the car hit you like that?Yes, said Silas.
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but sec...
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by thecomputer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the departmentthat drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow...
Coraline took a deep breath and stepped into the darkness, where strange voices whispered and distant winds howled. She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very o...
But, Doctor. The human race didn’t die out in 1984.’ ‘New timeline. It’s a paradox.’ ‘And you’re the paradoctor?’ ‘Just the Doctor.
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?’ ‘Easy,’ said the cat. ‘Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back...
Bod tried to smile, but he could not find a smile inside himself.