The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.