But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane. You know?
But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable.
Cómo tomas el café?Negro como la noche y dulce como un pecado.
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...
He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.
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.
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No.T...
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend...
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-What little bird? said Aziraphale s...
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.
If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowe...
If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?
In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the l...
Introduction to bits. Things are going up on the curb, every few months. Maybe. Bottle of the inside of the lines of the landing, not as we can set of brightness. But the houses get repayed, man. Anyw...
Islington smiled superciliously. Lucifer? It said. Lucifer was an idiot. It wound up lord and master of nothing at all. The marquis grinned. And you wound up lord and master of two thugs and a roomful...
It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-things are changing-w...
It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause...
It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that society is huge and the individual is less than nothing. But the truth is individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that thin...
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