Her Majesty Is One Verb Short Of

Marriage Is An Honorable Estate And Should Not Be Used Simply As An Excuse For Legal Intercourse.

Maybe Those Sorts Of Yes-or-no Life-and-death Decisions Are Easier To Make Because They Are So Black And White. I Can Cope With Them Because It's Easier. Human Emotions, Well. . .they're Just A Fathomless Collection Of Grays And I Don't Do So Well On The Midtones.

She Wasn't The Only One To Be Physically Morphed By Reader Expectation. Miss Havisham Was Now Elderly Whether She Liked It Or Not, And Sherlock Holmes Wore A Deerstalker And Smoked A Ridiculously Large Pipe. The Problem Wasn't Just Confined To The Classics. Harry Potter Was Seriously Pissed Off That He'd Have To Spend The Rest Of Life Looking Like Daniel Radcliffe.

Do You Really Think You'd Win A Pr War Against A Bunch Of Committed Librarians?' He Thought About This, But He Knew I Was Right. The Libraries Were A Treasured Institution And So Central To Everyday Life That Government And Commerce Rarely Did Anything That Might Upset Them.some Say They Were More Powerful Than The Military, Or, If Not, They Were Certainly Quieter. As They Say: Don't Mess With Librarians. Only They Use A Stronger Word Than 'mess'.

Reality Tv Was To Me The Worst Form Of Entertainment--the Modern Equivalent Of Paying Sixpence To Watch Lunatics Howling At The Wall Down At The Local Madhouse.