Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.

Books can be terrible snobs.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.