The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!