I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

There was no himself in himself.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.