There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.