When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

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