I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?" "I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!" "Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.