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

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

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

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.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.