What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

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.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.