Michael Grant

Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation?

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.

That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,' Sam said. 'But a cookie never hurts.

Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero.

But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'.

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done.