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

“Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it’s the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part.”

“The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.”

“Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.”

“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ”

“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.”

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”