As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get no­ticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker