But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things.""Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale.

His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.