Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

When I was very young, I would occasionally stick 'f****' where I knew something contentious might happen so that the editor could remove the word 'f***' very proudly and leave whatever else was around it.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.