“Oppression evolves, like everything else.”

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

“Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot”

“Nothing like a spider in the mouth to get you thinking.”

“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His skull broke like the vase and the vase broke like his skull, and both burst forth water mainly, and from the vase some flowers. If I could choose a death I’d make it something like that, except I’d add a good woman and some lard.”

“A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.”

“He said he didn’t like my kind and I was filled with the delirious expectation that he would identify me as a common species - that there were others like myself. I controlled my excitement, but he seemed to sense it - his gaze wavered uncertainly.”