It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems.