I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.

All bookshelves are magical.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.