I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.

I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.

Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?

Time and death sleep side by side.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.