You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.