“The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet.”

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book.

The chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It’s part of our DNA. That’s why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

Mind you, why they’d be cooking chips at this hour was anyone’s guess.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia’s most exciting new novelists.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

I love to love. However, you won’t see anybody walking the red carpet with me until I’m married.

When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.

So wherever the action is happening, we’re taking pieces from that red carpet.

One man’s pet-stained carpet is another man’s Twister game.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.