This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.