And the new day was a great big fish.

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.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.