“In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.”

“There’s no such thing as a normal angel. It’s never done that way.”

“No matter how good the idea, there’s always an advocate extreme enough to deter people.”

“From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails”

“Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space”

“I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it”

“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”