You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).