"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.