In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Read Summary
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. Read Summary
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Read Summary
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. Read Summary
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. Read Summary
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Read Summary
The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine. Read Summary
Freedom without limits is just a word. Read Summary
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' Read Summary
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. Read Summary
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. Read Summary
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. Read Summary
If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother. Read Summary
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet. Read Summary
I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with. Read Summary
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. Read Summary
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes. Read Summary
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Read Summary
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. Read Summary
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. Read Summary