“Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.”

“The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!”

“The night people, people like her, had melted back into their hiding places. Now the city was ruled by the day people. The sun was only just beginning to light up the world but already there were busy bees everywhere. Buzz, buzz, buzz out of my way, I have a life to live. I am important. I am someone special. People need me. The world needs me. Buzz, buzz, buzz. The people who had somewhere to go and something to do took brisk steps through the station. They walked with their elbows out, making sure no one got in their way. They were all talking into their phones, even at such an early hour. Making plans and exchanging ideas.”

“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.”

“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”

“Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.”