And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.