I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.