Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.