It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

Cake is not the issue here.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.