The Princess Bride

is an excellent book by William Goldman (isbn 0-7475-4518-9). As usual I'm going to quote from a few pages:

It's still my favourite book in all the world. And more than ever, I wish I had written it.

This is my favourite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

Miracles. Giants. True love.

Eyes like the sea before a storm.

We are but poor circus performers.

Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable

Then one morning, Inigo was gone. In his place were three words: "I must learn" on a note pinned to his pillow.

I am not left-handed.

What you do not smell is called iocane powder.

Don't you rush me, sonny, you rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

I AM THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS AND THERE WILL BE NO SURVIVORS.