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Denial is stupid. We're fighting the living dead. Would you prefer we call them 'undead citizens'?

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

Lilah, there's not a living soul on this planet who shouldn't be afraid of Saint John.

You crazy or something?" growled Zucco. "It's come up in therapy.

Régis Jauffret got it right when he said that he was disgusted by writers who think of their readers.

The apocalyptic dystopias dreamed up by anti-urbanists were peopled by seething masses welded into the terrible organism of the mob, which is also a standard-issue subject of expressionism.

Master says the cholera is not a quality disease. The highborn don't come down with such.

What the country faces is not a crisis of leadership but a crisis of followership.

Society, not science, determines what is normal in the lives we lead, and that, right now, is the problem.

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

A traitor is no fit king. Live the life that unfold before you. Love goodness more than you fear evil.

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.

The seventeenth century was the dawn of an age of secularisation. The twenty-first century will be the start of an age of desecularisation.

Functionally, a priest in the ancient world was one who could read and write. A kingdom of priests is therefore a nation of universal literacy.

When Jacob was chosen, Esau was not rejected. God does not reject. "Though my mother and father might abandon me, the Lord will take me in" (Psalms 27:10). Chosenness means two things: intimacy and responsibility. God holds us close and makes special demands on us. Beyond that, God is the God of all mankind – the Author of all, who cares for all.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

RACHEL SHTEIR is the author of three nonfiction books, most recently The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

Do you trust me?' the skull said. ... 'Yes,' I said. 'Sort of.' 'Then break the bloody glass.

Lucy, I'm a malevolent skull, without an ounce of compassion. You've got to be worried if I'm feeling sorry for you.

Can I offer you some tea while you ransack our place?' Lockwood asked politely.

Ooh, I smell something burning... Wait, wait - it's your pants ! Your pants are on fire, you massive liar ! You so weren't on a case !

You speak with eerie calm, but your face promises violence. I feel a little frightened.

That old cow gave me a right old whack. See this horrible red blob?