When I am old I shall wear midnight.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.