Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.