There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
I shouldn’t believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
For a taste that’s a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it’s extinct.
We’re in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It’s the crack cocaine of the literary world.
History has rewritten itself so many times I’m not really sure how it was to begin with – it’s a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it’s been repainted eight times.
I collect ex-boyfriends – and more than five, at last count.
Sometimes I don’t know whether I’m thening or nowing.
To each our own Hamlet.
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
Death doesn’t care about personalities – he’s more interested in meeting quotas.
I have the death sentence in seven genres.
Fiction wouldn’t be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
I also read about Heathcliff’s unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.