I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.

If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.