You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people... I find such people sort of charming, even though they usually don't like me.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

I’m happier than a pig eating bacon!