Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

The world is always ending, for someone.

Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death.

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

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

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.