“He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.”

“Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.”

“It's given many great performers their start, but more importantly, it's killed thousands of barely talented people and it's put them to death, and they're now doing the jobs they're built for.”

“You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't like you much. ”

“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain.”

“You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.”