For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.