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.

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.