There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.