By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.