Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.