There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.