It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

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

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!