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

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.