I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

I wished I could share my own optimism.