“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.”

“It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”

“...rational thoughts made out of insane components.”

“And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch.And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?”

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

“Bill Door found a piece of chalk in the farm's old smithy, located a piece of board among the debris, and wrote very carefully for some time. Then he wedged the board in front of the henhouse and pointed Cyril toward it.THIS YOU WILL READ, he said.Cyril peered myopically at the "Cock-A Doodle-Doo" in heavy gothic script. Somewhere in his tiny mad chicken mind a very distinct and chilly understanding formed that he'd better learn to read very, very quickly.”

“It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.”