Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.