Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.