You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

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

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.