The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.