The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

Through their discomforts Dom and Phil were missing everything of interest: the sudden strip marshes, the faces in the rock formations, the perfect lakes, the awesome måskoskårså valley grooved into the earth during the Ice Age, the golden eagle circling above it, and the views of a landscape it was impossible to believe existed in Europe.

After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!

Es hätte alles so schön sein können. Ein bisschen billige Psychotherapie, angereichert mit mittelalterlichen Ideen von Askese und Frömmigkeit. Ein Leben ohne falschen Stolz und Egoismus. Das jedenfalls waren die ursprünglichen Ideale. Alles eingehüllt in allerlei Mystizismus, damit es toll aussah.

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.