Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.