Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

Water....I'm thirsty not dirty.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.