"All gone. Zelazny was one of the first times I looked at something I had had familiarity with to find the spot where the memory should have been empty, replaced by a scrawled "Moved South for the Fishing" sign. Calculus was another loss. It was quite upsetting to reach for a skill and find nothing."

"Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes."

"My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s."

"I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people."

"I find this varies considerably from near-death experience to near-death experience. For example, having a wandering loonie break down the door of my game store to look for women was so funny the entire concussion and pools of blood thing was a minor footnote. Being sucked out into the Atlantic by an undertow was deeply irritating. Having a snowba[n]k collapse on me was alarming because of the claustrophobia issue. The car wreck was over almost before I had time to realise what was happening."

"Hell, Chuck Yeager could do it in his sleep while on fire, I'm sure."

"After enough concussions the head injuries blur together."

"Rafe turned up looking like the glass of fashion and the mold of form."