We’re going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past. Holy Black Beard Geill do mo thoil! One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life ... is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it. Subtle? I don't do subtle. Words are in my not-so-humble opinion, the most inexhaustible form of magic we have, capable both of inflicting injury and remedying it. May the hair on your toes never fall out! It has been a pleasure speaking to you. The owls are not what they seem.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!