One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.