This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.