This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

I'd like to walk on the moon (and return).

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.