The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.