They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

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