My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.