"I need to get home and have a long, hot bath and then a martini." Thursday5 thought for a moment. "After you've drunk the long, hot bath," she obser… - Jasper Fforde

“I am surprised to see you because…you died six years ago!”
“I did?” inquired Mycroft with genuine concern. “Why does no one tell me these things?”
I shrugged, as there was really no good answer to this.

"You're crazy!"
"Undoubtedly. But look around you. You followed me in here. Who's crazier? The crazy or the crazy who follows him?"

A third faction who called them selves “simplists” argued that there was a single fundamental rule the governed all story: if it works, it works.