People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.