Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space rocket (powered by anti-gravity), their attendant entities Hadron, Gluon, Pion, Lepton, and Muon, and the Charmed Quarks and the Coloured Quarks. But we can't all be physicists.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.