“Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.”

“Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once”

“He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards”

“The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.”

“A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.”

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

“Murder’s the taking of one man’s life by another - war’s the other way around.”