Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.