I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.