"Every night, at exactly a quarter past three, something dreadful happens on the street outside our bedroom window. We…"

"The Extras were as clean as they'd ever been in their lives, and their hair - and beards in the case of the older one…"

"Somebody out there, show your compassion, come and kill me. Cut me free and watch me slowly shrivel, or slice me up a…"

"Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain.…"

"Yes, I'm complacent now, with my well enough paid job, with a wife I can almost talk to, with a three-year-old son al…"

"On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed."

"My retainers keep me on ice. Dry ice. It slows my metabolism, takes the edge off my appetite, slightly. I lie, bound …"

"How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?" "That depends." "On what?" "On how I want to feel."

"Gambling is a kind of tax: a tax on stupidity. A tax on greed. Some money changes hands at random, but the net cash f…"

"There are moments when my mind misses a beat. I find myself, in mid-step or mid-breath, feeling as if delivered abrup…"