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.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.