Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.