I’m a culture hero,” he said. “We do the same shit gods do, we just screw up more and nobody worships us. They tell stories about us, but they tell the ones that make us look bad along with the ones where we came out fairly okay.

“I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only sett…”

“She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis …”

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”

“And the state of his bathroom -- I'm not one to gossip, but there are things cr…”