Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.