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

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.