That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

Moses: God or crowd control?!?

I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.