If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.