Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

Things have no power that humans don't put there.