Books”—Snell smiled—“are a kind of magic. - Jasper Fforde

"Oh, hullo, Worthing," he said in a cheery manner. "How are things?"
"Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass."

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception.

My father always argued that time was far and away the most valuable commodity we had and that temporal profligacy should be a criminal offense—which kind of makes watching Celebrity Kidney Swap or reading Daphne Farquitt novels a crime straightaway.