My brain surprises even me sometimes.

Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb.