WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.