“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and sometimes they’re amiable and sometimes not.” China Miéville, The...

“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away...

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” H.P....