When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

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

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.