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

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.

'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.