You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!