I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.