"It was joy, joy, happy joy.
Happy, happy joy.
A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford."
— Robert Rankin (Web Site Story)

"'Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.'"
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"'Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.'"
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"'Jack, get a grip of yourself.'
'I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public."
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"'Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.'"
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"Jack nodded. 'No,' he said.
'Was that a trick answer?'"
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"'Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.'"
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course."
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"'Because I'm a special gatekeeper. I'm the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I'm only a head, I'm also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don't you agree?'"
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"'Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.'
'All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.'"
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"'...And there's the Midnight Growlers, a philosophical movement dedicated to high spiritual ideals and the pursuit of truth and -'
'Beer,' said Tinto."
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"And yes. They did become very drunk, the three of them.
And you're not supposed to be drunk when you get involved in matters such as this: Big Matters, Matters of an Apocalyptic Nature. You're supposed to be coldly sober. And you just can't be coldly sober when you're drunk."
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)

"Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around."
— Robert Rankin (The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)