DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.