Quotes from book

Maskerade

“But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?”

“the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters”

“But I don'tin reincarnation!" he protested.
SQUEAK.
And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in.”

“The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song”

“But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.”

“You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”

“Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?
-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.”

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”

“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”

“(About sweeping)….
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.”