I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

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

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.

Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.