Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

And so there is magic.

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.