Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth."

"I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you."

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."

"Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all."

"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse."