Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.