Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

Fate can be one mean god at times.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.