J'up grâce à un homme gai.
"These people ought to know who we are and tell that we are here"
"It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go."
"I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon."
"He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once."
"This isn't about what is... it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things."
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time"
"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do"
"Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A."