“We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger.
I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?”

“For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.”

“Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.”

“It's [the art-magazine 'Circle'] been reprinted and it's now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin's wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, 'Why shouldn't we do a book?”

“The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back.”

“Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?”
--Sadie to Zia”

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

“Spend your life doing strange things with weird people.”

“So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.”

“So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked.
He looked at me as if I were stupid.
'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.”