Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

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

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

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

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.