Who wears masks?’‘Bank robbers?’‘No.’‘Really ugly people?’‘No.’‘Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.’‘Yes! They do!’ He flung his arms wide in delight.‘So that’s important?’‘Not even a little bit. But it’s true.

Look, you know I´m right. You´d be as happy with a harp as I´d be with a pitchfork." "You know we don´t play harps.""And we don´t use pitchforks. I was being rethorical.

Grahame Coats did not go for walks; he had people to do that for him.

Morning Mister Mayhew" he said. It was not a welcoming "morning". It was the kind of "morning" that implied that the speaker really did not care if the recipient lived or died - nor indeed, for that matter, if it was even morning

It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.