There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

The world is always ending, for someone.