After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.

He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.