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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats — any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death — then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But don’t you see, this is just the point — what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music: the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the powerful attraction of its example. It has always been assumed that the most important things in the Gospels are the ethical maxims and commandments. But for me the most important thing is that Christ speaks in parables taken from life, that He explains the truth in terms of everyday reality. The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful.

Like, there's these new fundamentalist religious fanatics, some name like Meek Militant Action. Their aim's to inherit the Earth, provided nobody objects.' - c. 12

Here we go, surfing the Net again, something done by humans and very gullible fish.

Here and there a doorway or low arch concealed the occasional mugger, rapist or lawyer.

Good guys is just a fancy way of saying Us. Bad guys is only ever Them.' -

Besides, [Saint] George pointed out, dragons burn towns and demand princesses as ransom.

The dragons, referring to the Siege of Jerusalem, the Sack of Constantinople and a thousand years of dynastic marriages, said, Look who's talking.

'Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.'

'...and we have already seen how insurance is like a pyramid -

(Huge, incomprehensible, hideously expensive, completely unnecessary and specifically designed only to be of benefit to you once you're dead?)'

In the beginning was the Word. Nobody knows what it actually was, although it would be nice to think that it was 'Sorry.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

Jane was a child of the media age, and there lurked in the back of her mind the instinctive belief that if a thing wasn't on the news, it couldn't really have happened after all.