A wise partner does not come between her man and his best friend. - Lindsey Davis

Petronius once told me that pathological murderers tend to start their killing sprees while they are children. Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.

There comes a point for a nut-lover, Quintus thought, where funeral food is worth taking a risk, even when you are dining with a megalomaniac who wants to kill you.

Stick with it, Xanthus. There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.