You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.