"

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.

"

It's rude to stare," said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a sto...more

"

- "Surely you have considered terrorist activity?"There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough a...more

"

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed...more

"

Humans need fantasy to be human.

"

Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist fo...more

"

Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not actually thinking?''Er...no.''So...he just gives the ...more

"

The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have ...more

"

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

"

Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.

"

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

"

The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered toge...more

"

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

"

NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY

"

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom* *...more