The “Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry,” located in the fictional Northern Russian town of Solovets, is portrayed as a place where everyone must work hard willingly, or else their loss of honesty is symbolized by hair growing from their ears.

You have to do a lot of work to make a reader care that a fictional character has eaten nine fictitious tons of metal.

While waiting for his arraignment, the eccentric academic boasted to fellow inmates that his crime was for art’s sake.

“He was doing research for a film,” said his dazzled cell-mate Kaylan Sherrard, 27.

Well, an immortal witch ordering pizza from pizza-hut doesn’t bother me more than an immortal witch ordering pizza from a completely made-up pizza resturant.

In his twenties he tried to create diamonds by heating graphite and shorted out Glasgow’s electricity supply.

When you know a person’s birth date, you know their Birth Cards, and when you know their Birth Cards, you know the things about them that will never change from birth to death, no matter what happens in their lives.

Does living in a black hole provide privacy?

It is not easy being Steve, but you must not forget that Steve is important.  And you are not necessarily going to be Steve for the rest of your life.

As a kid, you always believed the Sex Pistols were going to conquer the world and kill everybody in the process.

Moistboyz music is typically fast paced punk/metal, combining stream-of-consciousness lyrics with aggressive rock guitar riffs.