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

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

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.