“Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?”

“Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.”

“The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little puzzlement.”

“Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”

“If it weren't for all the setbacks and problems of life, there would be nothing to look forward to.”

“He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.”

“They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get.”