We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.