“Because time does the job, dynamite can't touch. (Samuel Hamilton)”
“There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.”
“The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.”
“I suppose you can't interview Virgin Val without bringing up Kyle Hamilton”
“You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it’ll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it’s not even funny.”
“There's a capacity for apetite," Samuel said, "that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy”