I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

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

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.