"“And nothing can stop it?” “Nothing I know of,” he replied sadly. “The best way to stop this is to not allow it to st…"

"The atmosphere in the room was so thick with dramatic clichés you could have cut it with a knife."

"“You’re crazy!” “Undoubtedly. But look around you. You followed me in here. Who’s crazier? The crazy or the crazy who…"

"“I’ll tell you what love is,” I told her. “It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, tr…"

"“Write is only the word we use to describe the recording process,” replied Snell as we walked along. “The Well of Los…"

"“Books”—Snell smiled—“are a kind of magic.”"

"Money had never been a problem in the Book World. All the details of life were taken care of by something called Narr…"

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ul…"

"“Don’t believe this,” murmured Miss Havisham. “It’s all poppycock. Her majesty is a verb short of a sentence.”"

"Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception."