It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.