* From ''Trumps of Doom'':
-->I traveled for perhaps half an hour then, leaving the place far behind me, before I halted and took my breakfast in a hot, bleak valley smelling faintly of sulfur.\\
As I was finishing, I heard a crashing noise. A horned and tusked purple thing went racing along the ridge to my right pursued by a hairless orange-skinned creature with long claws and a forked tail. Both were wailing in different keys.\\
I nodded. It was just one damned thing after another.

* Random chooses how best to start his tale in ''The Sign of the Unicorn.'' Finally, he begins:
--> While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between...