“Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.”

“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”

“If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.”

“I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems”

“Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?""Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.”

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”