People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

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

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.