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

“What’s that thing when someone gets a knock on the head and suddenly can’t remember anything about himself?’Death,’ said the barman, his face a mask of disapproval.”

“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.”

“One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.”

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

“...to him Marx and Rand were the same because he went by pant size”

“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.”