It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.

I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

It's hard to be famous and alive.

It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.